MSDN Industry Center - Health Plans

Microsoft's Health Plans Industry Group will be participating at the AHIP 2007 conference in Las Vegas from June 20, 2007 to June 22, 2007. During this confernce Microsoft will showcase the Microsoft platform for Health Plan solutions and also announce the Connected Health Framework for Health Plans. Microsoft is also sponsoring a key technology session on Friday, June 22, 2007 titled "Achieving Integration and Interoperability Across the Technology Infrastructure".

Mircrosoft announces the availability of the Connected Health Framework for Health Plans. The Connected Health Framework for Health Plans is a free, open, and extensible reference architecture to help health plans drive out the costs and complexities of interconnecting core systems, service channels, new applications, consumers, devices and business partners and rapidly seize new business opportunities. The framework combines Microsoft’s comprehensive SOA offering with partner solutions and applications to provide Health Plans with tools, technologies, guidance, and reusable artifacts for building and maintaining SOA solutions.  These SOA solutions enable business users to streamline and optimize business processes to increase productivity, drive out costs and complexity, and promote organizational agility.

Microsoft’s Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) Pack for Health Plans is a consumer health enablement and engagement reference architecture that will enable health plans to “go where consumers go” by supporting direct-to-consumer connectivity and personal interactions within the context of the consumer’s daily life.  Technology-generated “moments of participation” enable consumers to proactively manage their health and their finances across the home, the workplace, and connected devices. CERA is built on Microsoft’s 2007 Office system.  The 2007 Office system provides a comprehensive set of servers, clients, and tools to make it easier for enterprises, software vendors and developers to build and deploy a new class of business applications called Office Business Applications (OBAs).