Microsoft Vendor Alliance Seeks to Set Industry Standards for Consumer-Centered Delivery of Health & Human Services

OPEN MINDS On-Line News Strategic Health Care News On June 12, 2008, Microsoft announced a multi-vendor alliance that will address the problems of meshing incompatible legacy information technology systems used by health and human service agencies. The alliance will seek to set industry standards for connecting state and jurisdictional human service systems to give providers a comprehensive view of consumer needs. The vendor alliance supports version 2.0 of the Microsoft Connected Health and Human Services (HHS) Framework. Additional partners are invited to join the Connected HHS Alliance to further accelerate the initiative. The Framework alliance is currently . . .