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Oracle, which already markets its product Oracle Clinical to pharmaceutical companies, announces acquisition of Waltham MA based Phase Forward to add to its suite. Phase Forward uses a Software as a Service product to help pharmaceutical companies move from paper-based management and submission of clinical trials data to an electronic form. Friends working in clinical trials data [...]

A thoughtful analysis of why Microsoft should acquire a partner in the Electronic Health Record space, as well as a brief analysis of the top ten contender firms.  I particularly enjoyed the retelling of the Great Plains/Navision CRM success story as background. http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/medical/microsoft-emr-its-not-just-a-matter-of-when-its-a-matter-of-who-1040510/

Looks like I missed this announcement when it initially came out, but in a major score for Microsoft HealthVault, the team has announced a business partnership with German industrial giant Seimens. This will make Germany the third country to use HealthVault, after the US and Canada. http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/01/28/siemens-licenses-microsoft-healthvault/

David Cerino of Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group – the HealthVault and the Amalga lineup – announces HealthVault Community Connect at the HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta, and clarifies the group’s strategy of moving consumers to Personal Health Records (PHRs) by selling hospitals on the value proposition first. The new product will be based on the SharePoint [...]

An exciting announcement from Microsoft Research – Microsoft is going to give away free Azure cloud computing access to researchers through the National Science Foundation. It will be fun to see more scientific computing solutions on the .NET platform as a result of Microsoft’s research support!   http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/feb10/02-04NSFPR.mspx

This week Microsoft announced it will purchase the Rosetta Biosoftware division from Merck. This looks like a huge win/win/win combo; Merck gets out of a software business it doesn’t really “get”, Microsoft instantly becomes a serious player in the bioinformatics space with partnerships with Affymetrix and Illumina, and the biotech field gets serious software engineering [...]