Microsoft today will kick off a new technology and marketing program aimed at the health insurance industry. The software company, which sees the health care market as one of its fastest growing, will release technical guidance that independent software vendors and systems integrators can use to make their applications work with Microsoft products, including Windows, SQL Server, InfoPath, SharePoint Server, and Groove.
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Today at the World Health Care Congress, 22 companies announced support for Knowledge Driven Health Plans, Microsoft Corp.’s vision and solutions framework for the health plan industry.
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Today at the World Health Care Congress, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and VisionTree Software, Inc. announced they are collaborating for the first implementation of the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 700w smartphone running the VisionTree Conference Platform. More than 200 VIP attendees will use Treo 700w smartphones as tools to wirelessly collect, analyze and report data(1) while at the conference, which runs April 17-19.
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In a continued blitz to shore up its image as stingy on healthcare, Wal-Mart has unveiled more worker health benefits. The discount retailer unveiled additional changes to its employee health plan at the 2006 World Health Congress in Washington, D.C.
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National health insurance for catastrophic care, but not a government-run healthcare system was one of the key healthcare reforms urged by GlaxoSmithKline CE0 J.P Garnier Monday at the 2006 World Health Congress in Washington, D.C.
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17 April 2006
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The Frontrunner, WASHINGTON'S SCHEDULE
PRESIDENT BUSH - Tours Europa Stone Distributors, Inc. Sterling, Va.; participates in roundtable discussion on taxes and the economy, Europa Stone Distributors, Sterling, Va.
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Don't know what to expect from this self-aggrandizingly named meeting. I'm familiar with medical association meetings, where politics and policy predominate, as well as research meetings, with endless paper presentations.
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BEIJING and PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CIGNA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer H. Edward Hanway today received the distinguished Marco Polo Award, the highest honor bestowed by China to a foreign business leader. Hanway joined the ranks of past Marco Polo recipients, including former President George H. W. Bush, and some of the world's greatest leaders of business and industry.
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Troy Kirchenbauer, the General Manager of aptitude™ , Novation’s new entity serving the direct contracting market, has been named to the Advisory Board of the 11th Annual World Health Care Congress, taking place April 7-9, 2014 at the Gaylord National Hotel and Resort in National Harbor, Maryland. “I’m looking forward to contributing and am honored to have this opportunity to join the World Congress Advisory Board,” said Kirchenbauer, “it is important that we stay topical and informative as our industry continues its path towards change.”
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There were more questions than answers for hospital CIOs at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth in Boston last week. It shouldn't be a surprise, given the rapid rise of mobile development in the past year. The truth is, there hasn't been enough time to create hard-and-fast solutions for the key dilemmas plaguing mHealth.
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