Workplace Labs. DevLabs. adCenter Labs. Live Labs. (Oops.)Microsoft is complete of incubators designed to more rapidly transfer investigation jobs to the product groups.Thank you to a tipster,
Office Pro Plus 2010, I just learned this week of an additional of these labs: Microsoft;s Healthcare Innovation Lab.The Healthcare Innovation Lab is aligned with Microsoft;s Health Solutions Group — the business unit that oversees HealthVault, Azyxxi, Sentillion and other Microsoft health-focused products and technologies. I asked Microsoft for far more information and found out that the Lab, based in Washington, D.C., is actually nine years old, created by the Azyxxi team that Microsoft acquired in 2006.Much more from a Well being Options spokesperson:“Fitting Microsoft’s vision for ‘Labs; – the Healthcare Innovation Lab focuses on technology transfer from across Microsoft Analysis, Microsoft Item groups, academia, and industry partners. In the direction of that goal, the lab applies a principle of ‘technology arbitrage;: identify promising technologies successfully solving challenges in other fields and reapply them to healthcare to bring positive differences towards the lives of patients and providers. The Innovation Lab’s current and founding director, Michael Gillam, MD, has led the team through assignments spanning gesture based natural user interfaces,
Office Home And Business, advanced data visualization, Surface Computing, augmented and virtual reality, and robotics.”I blogged a month ago about Microsoft looking to use Surface 2,
Office Professional Plus 2010, Kinect and Xbox in wellness products/solutions. And former Softie and robotics champion Tandy Trower was big on the possibilities of using robots in healthcare (and still is at his new venture,
Office Pro 2010 Key, Hoaloha Robotics).Earlier this week, Microsoft;s Health Options Group announced plans to provide encrypted e-mail functionality for HealthVault. Via this offering,
Windows 7 Enterprise, “every HealthVault record will be able to automatically accept mails directly from healthcare providers,” according to the press release. Initial HealthVault partners making use of the new encryption offering include MedPlus and VisionShare Inc.
