Microsoft, HIMSS Form Health Users Group for EMEA
Microsoft and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) have announced Microsoft Health Users Group (Microsoft HUG)
across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). It’s an online forum
to connect healthcare communities in the region.
The aim
is to provide healthcare organizations and partners with an online venue
to facilitate the development of healthcare solutions and demonstrate
how technology can help solve healthcare challenges.
Microsoft HUG's diverse membership currently comprises over 5,000
members and 31 corporate supporters across North America, and is unified
by a shared interest in implementing vendor- and user-developed software
based on Microsoft technology to improve healthcare quality and
efficiency, while reducing complexity and cost, says Microsoft.
"Extending Microsoft HUG to the EMEA healthcare community provides an
expanded forum for sharing best practices and learnings from our own
experience as well as those of our customers and partners," said Tim
Smokoff, general manager of worldwide health at Microsoft.
"Managing Microsoft HUG enables us to further promote our mission to
lead change in the healthcare information and management systems field
through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation and
community affiliation. Ultimately our goal is to drive better patient
care, and this is another step in that direction," said H. Stephen
Lieber, CAE, president and chief executive officer, HIMSS.
The
Microsoft HUG EMEA community, hosted within the existing Microsoft HUG
site (http://www.mshug.org/), will give members access to a resource
that aims to connect solutions, experts, and peers to a wider sphere of
education.
