The aim of the event is to provide a European healthcare industry forum for exchanging ideas, promoting learning and sharing solutions for information systems using Microsoft technologies.
Communication is one of the key issues for healthcare professionals throughout Europe.
We aim to provide industry leadership, influence and drive appropriate standards and develop associated requirements in support of healthcare solutions. Robert Powell, healthcare industry manager at Microsoft EMEA, is an active member of the MS-HUGe committee. Microsoft's role on the committee is about helping the healthcare industry to work together to develop standards for the industry that streamline business processes, reducing health-care costs and improving the quality of patient care. Microsoft's Windows DNA for Healthcare initiative, announced in September this year, is an important step towards facilitating this process. Powell is presenting at the event with David Gristwood, applications architect at Microsoft EMEA, on 'Building Healthcare Applications in the Internet Age', focusing on Microsoft's Windows DNA for Healthcare initiative and explaining the benefits of using this architecture to build the next generation of healthcare applications.