Microsoft Joins Forces with SAP America for Hea... ( Market strategy launched for Mic...)

Microsoft Joins Forces with SAP America for Healthcare IT

Date:2/24/2008

Market strategy launched for Microsoft-based SAP solutions in the

healthcare industry.

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2008 Conference & Exhibition, Microsoft Corp. announced it has signed a joint marketing agreement with SAP America Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG, through which the companies have agreed to work together to deliver solutions that meet the unique needs of the healthcare industry. The companies' collaboration will seek to help healthcare organizations increase operational efficiency and reduce costs using software to automate and streamline processes that are today often manual or based on cumbersome legacy technology. The companies will focus their healthcare collaboration activities in the United States.

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"Healthcare is a complex industry, with slim margins, tight budgets and high administrative costs," said Tim Smokoff, general manager of healthcare for the Worldwide Public Sector Team at Microsoft. "There is tremendous opportunity for these organizations to lower those costs and create value through the power of software. Together with SAP, we want to help the healthcare industry realize that value."

The combination of solutions from Microsoft and SAP is proven to reduce costs and create operational efficiency, with one of the lowest total costs of ownership on the market today. As an example, with more than 70,000 admissions per year, Montefiore Medical Center is one of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States and the dominant medical system in the Bronx borough of New York City. Working with SAP software enabling technology and utilizing the Microsoft suite of products for communication, Montefiore has been able to overhaul and stre
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