Microsoft UK Health Blog
News and information about health-related IT for people who work in UK healthcare from the Microsoft UK Health team.
Learn how to clean your Surface Pro 3 for use in a clinical environment
Health care providers all over the world are using the Surface Pro 3 to spend change the way they...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/26/2014
Watch how Operation Smile is bringing more children “from hopelessness to possibility”
This post is by Carrie Landry. Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate enough to see how...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/06/2014
Vote on the next great health app at Future Decoded
Health care might just be the most exciting segment of the enterprise app market. Sure, apps in...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/24/2014
Tim Berners-Lee & the trends driving the Web's future
The history of the World Wide Web is all about finding better ways to transmit information; the...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/23/2014
5 free events for IT Pros looking to master the cloud
Cloud tools are rewriting the rules faster than most IT departments can keep up. Whether...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/21/2014
East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub finds flexibility – and savings – in the cloud
When the East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub healthcare organization grew frustrated by...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/15/2014
Discover the value of tablets with this ROI calculator
We’ve been told that tablets are consumer toys and laptops are boring, bog-standard tech....
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/14/2014
Using Yammer to deliver informal learning
This post by the Department of Health's Dave Briggs originally appeared on Gov.UK's Digital Health...
Author: Dave Briggs Date: 10/01/2014
Focus on Windows Apps for Health: NHSGiveBlood gives donors control
This post is part of an occasional series about health-focused apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 09/23/2014
Microsoft CityNext: How Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is saving £1 million by making decisions faster
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust employs about 20,000 staff members at more than 100 physical...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 09/09/2014
FAQ: What does CPA certification of Microsoft's VPN mean for your office?
Earlier this year, Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure were granted OFFICIAL accreditation by...
Author: Stuart Aston Date: 09/05/2014
Medical image archiving in the cloud? Consider the 4 S’s
One of the most compelling arguments for storing digital data in the cloud is medical imaging. It is...
Author: Dr. Bill Crounse Date: 08/28/2014
See Satya Nadella make his first UK appearance at Future Decoded
Have you heard the news? On 10 November, Satya Nadella will be giving his first-ever UK speech as...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 08/21/2014
Why your meetings are broken – and what you can do to fix them
Meetings can be the best part of your day -- or the absolute worst. They can be great tools for...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 08/20/2014
Focus on Windows Apps for health: See inside the human body with Essential Anatomy 3
This post is part of an occasional series about health-focused apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 08/20/2014
Get Online @ Home offers free PCs with 12-month broadband signup to combat the digital divide
It’s not hard to see how the digital divide is hampering the UK’s economic growth and...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 08/18/2014
Could you do your job from a bus all day? This #BusWorker is going to try!
Conversations about flexible working too often fall into the trap of using "anywhere working" as a...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 08/15/2014
All she wanted was to see her baby – luckily the hospital found a way to bring them together
Yeilin wanted nothing more than to see her new-born daughter Kaitlyn. But medical complications were...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 08/07/2014
Civil Service Live 2014: Una O'Brien and the challenges ahead for UK health care
Civil Service Live 2014 gave health care workers a rare chance to hear directly from some of the...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 08/01/2014
Focus on Windows Apps for health: Create a behavioural record for children with autism with ABPathfinder’s Parent Pathway
This post is part of an occasional series about health-focused apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 07/29/2014
Civil Service Live 2014 – Learn to fight “Infobesity” and reimagine your organisation with Dave Coplin
The numbers don’t lie. Workers are positively drowning in data. But at the same time,...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 07/11/2014
Video: Watch what happens when staff at Seattle Children’s Hospital get their hands on the new Surface Pro 3
Surface Pro 3 will launch later this summer in the UK. But at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 07/10/2014
Civil Service Live 2014 – Discover what a day of smarter working really looks like
The way we work is changing and technology is allowing us to work when, where and how we choose....
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 07/03/2014
Everything fit for purpose: A new approach to device standardisation
Microsoft’s Richard Shipton knows a thing or two about public sector IT, having spent time...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 06/25/2014
Watch a woman hear unaided for the first time after a life-changing operation
Sarah Churman was born with 85 bi-lateral decibel loss, which meant she could barely hear at all...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 06/24/2014
FAQ: What Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 OFFICIAL accreditation means for your organisation
Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 now hold the UK Government’s recently launched...
Author: Stuart Aston Date: 06/11/2014
Microsoft’s mobility platform means business
This post is by John Delaney, Associate Vice President, European Mobility, IDC. Microsoft’s...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 06/06/2014
Just what the doctor ordered—Surface Pro 3
Some of you may be wondering why I’ve said so little about the newest member of our Surface...
Author: Dr. Bill Crounse Date: 06/03/2014
West Midlands Ambulance Service deploys Office 365 in pioneering G-Cloud deal
Innovative communication technologies allow the public to live and work faster than ever before. Yet...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/30/2014
Watch how flexible working transformed Locala Community Partnerships
More than 400,000 people rely on Locala Community Partnerships to provide NHS community services in...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/23/2014
The Rise of the Humans: How to outsmart the digital deluge
We all have these moments, when the digital deluge appears to sweep us away: the email inbox is...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/21/2014
How can we identify and unlock skill sets within public sector organisations?
This post is by Suzy Dean, CEO of EasySharePoint. There’s a wealth of talent within public...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/15/2014
Microsoft CityNext: Getting to grips with managing multi-agency outcomes in social care
Social services are rarely the responsibility of a single office. In the city of the future,...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/15/2014
Calling all nurses: Microsoft wants to help share your story
Each week this blog strives to bring readers the most interesting news and opinions from the world...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/12/2014
Microsoft City Next: 10 essentials for successful mobile application development
By Declan Grogan, Managing Director, NDL Software Mobile ‘line of business’ applications...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/09/2014
Microsoft CityNext: Examining the role of population health in designing 21st century cities
Health will play an essential role in the evolution of cities. High-density population areas face...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/06/2014
Microsoft and Barnardo’s team up for new app to combat child sexual exploitation
Child sexual exploitation is a growing problem. The ubiquity of camera phones and mobile messaging...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 05/01/2014
Microsoft CityNext: Turning data into best practices at a local level
If you wanted to find out how bad weather was affecting instances of respiratory disease in your...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 04/25/2014
Free event: Learn to find the insights hiding in your organisations’ data
You’ve always known there were insights hiding in your organisations’ data. There are...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 04/09/2014
Getting started with HealthVault: Bing Health & Fitness App
Every day there seems to be a new diet or exercise regime promising brilliant results -- but where...
Author: Vinit Patel Date: 04/04/2014
What makes an organisation “brilliant”? Find out with Microsoft and IMGROUP
The cloud is more than just a great way to lower your organisations’ IT costs. Cloud tools...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 04/03/2014
Project Sienna lets you build an app today with no code and no cost
Have you ever tried to learn a foreign language? Did you find it a little frustrating? Did you find...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 04/02/2014
Nice Guidance comes to Windows 8, thanks to Cloud2
Where can you go to get evidence-based, best-in-class guidance for promoting wellbeing and...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 03/26/2014