New Version of Microsoft Amalga Now Available to Hospitals and Health Systems

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"This is an important milestone for Amalga," said Steve Shihadeh, vice president, Microsoft Health Solutions Group. "This release benefits from over 10 years of development at Washington Hospital Center and feedback from some of the world's most reputable health organizations. Amalga fulfills its promise to unify information across the health enterprise and open up new opportunities to improve patient care, organizational quality and operational efficiency. We look forward to demonstrating the value these leading organizations are realizing from the use of Amalga."

The goal of the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange, for example, is to improve the quality of care, reduce errors and enhance cost effectiveness by using Amalga to provide emergency physicians with rapid access to patients' past medical history.

"With Amalga, we'll be able to manage queries across massive amounts of data, helping providers to improve patient care and helping our organization to become a full-service regional network," said Dr. Edward Barthell, co-founder of the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange.

Other Amalga early adopters include hospitals at academic medical centers such as Johns Hopkins Health System and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; large health systems such as MedStar Health, Novant Health and St. Joseph Health System; and research leaders such as H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

Amalga addresses a common and critical challenge of healthcare providers -- integrating vast amounts of clinical, administrative and financial information that flow in and out of disparate information systems, and tailoring that information for use by physicians, analysts, laboratory technicians, nurses and administrators. Amalga takes advantage of health enterprises' investments in existing health IT solutions and makes it possible for the entire organization to gain quick access to data and turn that information into critical knowledge that facilitates better decision-making and improved patient outcomes.

The new Amalga system is built on widely used and supported Microsoft products to deliver important benefits, including security features, high availability, scalability and full audit capabilities. Amalga also offers simplified deployment and improved supportability through streamlined administration, configuration and self-provisioning tools for users.

    The Amalga Family of Health Enterprise Systems includes the following:

    -- Microsoft Amalga. Amalga is part of a new software category called
       Unified Intelligence System that allows hospital enterprises to unlock
       the power of all their data sitting in isolated clinical, financial and
       administrative systems. Without replacing current systems, it offers an
       innovative way to capture, consolidate, store, access and quickly
       present data in meaningful ways for use by clinicians and executives of
       leading-edge institutions. Amalga is designed for hospitals and health
       systems that have invested in a diverse set of IT solutions.

    -- Microsoft Amalga Hospital Information System (HIS). Amalga HIS is a
       state-of-the-art, fully integrated hospital information system designed
       for developing and emerging markets. Amalga HIS is built around an
       electronic medical record with complete patient and bed management,
       laboratory, pharmacy, radiology information system and picture
       archiving and communication system (RIS/PACS), pathology, financial
       accounting, materials management, and human resource systems.

    -- Microsoft Amalga RIS/PACS. Amalga RIS/PACS is available as a
       stand-alone system in developing and emerging markets as well as an
       integrated component of Amalga HIS. The integrated architecture means
       that a radiologist can use a single application to manipulate and study
       images and access the patient medical record. The workstation
       interface, which includes support for predefined templates, an
       intuitive report editor and voice-recognition capabilities, is
       optimized for radiologist workflow.

More information on the Amalga family is available at http://www.microsoft.com/amalga.

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