Fortis, Microsoft to enhance healthcare

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Fortis today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft India to deploy solutions and services based on the Microsoft platform aimed at enhancing knowledge management and productivity.

Based on the 4P vision of healthcare - Prevention, Prediction, Personalization and Participation, Microsoft solutions will enable Fortis Healthcare collaborate on various processes online using office and exchange applications.

Microsoft will focus towards making documents, workflows, projects and performance management on a common SharePoint portal available to Fortis employees, doctors and nurses across all its centers. Deployment of the solutions will bring together diverse patient data from multiple sources and make it instantly available at the point of care, thereby enhancing productivity and most importantly, patient care, Fortis said in a statement.

“Technology plays a vital role in providing improved healthcare to patients. The association with Microsoft will give us access to latest technologies for better collaboration amongst all our staff to focus single-mindedly on enhanced patient care,” said Shivinder M Singh, managing director, Fortis Healthcare.

Neelam Dhawan, managing director, Microsoft India, said: “Globally Microsoft has a key focus on healthcare and we are very pleased to be entering the healthcare sector in India with Fortis. The group belongs to the new age and has undertaken some pioneering work in this area. We are committed to helping them enhance their offering to their patients.”