SINGAPORE: Microsoft Corp posted record fourth quarter and yearly revenues this
fiscal year, and Microsoft Health is one of its fastest growing businesses.
Microsoft Health has over 160,000
healthcare customers worldwide. It has over 20,000 partners selling its
healthcare solution technologies.
Microsoft Health said Asia is
growing as one of the fastest software markets.
Neil Jordan, general manager for
Worldwide Health, Microsoft, said: "Well, in Asia we see that the overall
software market potential is about $3.6 to 3.7 billion, in the next year or so.
It's growing as one of the fastest markets, growing at about 7 per cent or 8
per cent."
Microsoft Health is developing
cutting edge technology that is transforming the healthcare sector.
Tapping into the popularity of
mobile applications, Microsoft Health is now innovating for patients to manage
their health information using their handphones.
For example, Windows Phone users
can use Microsoft's HealthVault phone application to access and manage their personal
medical records from their smartphones while on the go.
It is also working with Asian
governments to provide cloud computing technologies, to help store and sort
healthcare information in a secure manner.
It said demand for better data
analytics is also a key growth driver.
Its technological innovations are
also helping to change the way hospitals are run.
Mr Jordan said: "Tablets are
really across the medical environment. Being able to do that, in a way that is
highly enterprise-secure and ready, is going to be vital. And we think (with)
the launch of Windows 8, which is coming out later this year, we're really
going to step forward, both in the usability, control and safety of these
devices, in hospitals and with health workers."
- CNA/cc
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