Microsoft focuses on  Xbox  applications
Microsoft focuses on Xbox applications

Microsoft hopes to vamp up its HealthVault and other health services by making it easier for users to do everything from tracking their caloric intake to counting their steps using their cell phones, according to researchers at a Microsoft forum on health care technology in Beijing.

A ‘Tipping Point’ Year For Health Care IT, Says HHS
A ‘Tipping Point’ Year For Health Care IT, Says HHS

Health-care providers of all stripes face a host of technology challenges in the new year. Indeed, “the tea leaves are not settled at the bottom of the cup yet, but [providers] are already expected to budget for 2009, 2010 and beyond,” said Bob Booz, managing vice president for Gartner Research, at a kick-off town hall at Everything Channel’s Healthcare Summit in San Diego.

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