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Microsoft to Acquire Healthcare Assets From Global Care Solutions

Posted on: Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 09:01 CDT

Microsoft has agreed to acquire software, intellectual property and other assets from Global Care Solutions.

The acquisition complements Microsoft's already strong portfolio of health solutions and will provide hospitals across international markets with a new alternative to achieve improved workflow and patient safety through information technology. GCS employees will join Microsoft's Health Solutions Group, which will manage product development and delivery.

Global Care Solution's system is a fully integrated suite of 50 clinical and back-office application modules designed and optimized to run all hospital clinical and administrative operations on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The new Microsoft offering based on the GCS technology will complement the company's current Azyxxi solution, which provides a data integration capability for hospitals with legacy systems already in place.

Peter Neupert, corporate vice president for the health solutions group at Microsoft, said: "The international, fully integrated nature of the GCS technology, and the fact that it is built from the ground up on scalable Microsoft technology, makes this a great addition to our portfolio of health enterprise products as we look to power developing and emerging hospital systems around the globe."

Source: Datamonitor

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