Enhance your Virtual Consult with Applications in Teams meetings

Microsoft Teams has been growing immensely in the last years. Virtual consultations have never been so important for patients to receive the remote care they need. I have been actively working with customers and partners in Western Europe to drive adoption and help enrich virtual consultations. One thing that became clear, is that people in […]

Appointment Self Scheduling

In the last months we have seen an increasing demand from our healthcare organizations to provide self scheduling functionality. An example is how hospitals want to provide a safe way for their patients to get tested for Covid-19, or how to visit your family member while keeping a safe distance and prevent crowding. Luckily I […]

How we are empowering our Healthcare Organizations throughout Covid-19

When Covid-19 had spread out in Europe, everyone’s life drastically changed. And every day we see new numbers coming in, going from new infections, people who died from Covid-19 or how the disease is spreading out. Whilst our economy is under enormous pressure, as almost everything is shutting down. And through all of that, people […]

Why FHIR® became a first-class data type in Azure.

In the last decade, technology in healthcare was all about digitizing data, where we have gone from about 15% of digital health records, to over 98% of health records that are in digital form today. We also see that the next decade is about making all that digital data available for research, innovation or empowering […]

Patient Symptoms – Proactive Messages

Following up on the Patient Symptoms series, I want to dive deeper on the what Bot solution(s) I used, how this is integrated into Microsoft Teams and briefly touch upon the FHIR server integration. This post is a follow-up on: how to capture Patient Symptom Information and Patient Symptoms – Powered on In the previous […]

How to capture patient symptom information?

When operating in the Healthcare space, we work with a massive amount of structured and unstructured data, but almost everything comes from the caregiver side. What if we create a solution, where patients provide their symptom information, directly to the caregiver. This would enable more insights in what symptoms could lead to certain type of […]

Microsoft commitment to Healthcare is proven across the three clouds

It has been almost one year and a half since I joined Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect in the Healthcare Industry. And I must admit, it is one of the most amazing things that I have done in my life. Working on a daily base with amazing colleagues, impressive partners and progressive customers, empowers […]