Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will be assets that include software and systems from Thailand-based health software maker Global Care Solutions. The financial term sof the deal were not announced, but Redmond said it had agreed to take on many GCS employees onto its own staff.
GCS makes health-related software that runs on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005. The software made by the company includes that used for patient record keeping, billing, regulatory compliance, and clinical workflows.
"We make everything you need to run a hospital in a single integrated solution," GCS CEO Patrick Downing, said in a statement. "We [provide] your traditional hospital information and management systems, plus we make all the clinical and back office systems and everything else you need."
The company added that it made the software in collaboration with Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok. According to a news release, the latter treats over 1.2 million patients from 190 countries across the world.
"The international, fully integrated nature of the GCS technology, and the fact that it is built from the ground up on scalable Microsoft technology, makes this a great addition to our portfolio of health enterprise products as we look to power developing and emerging hospital systems around the globe," said Peter Neupert, corporate vice president for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft.
Microsoft also said that it would continue to work with Bumrungrad to refine GCS' technology to further benefit hospitals. GCS' technology is currently used in seven hospitals in the Asia-Pacific region. Microsoft said that it would be releasing a software solution based on the GCS technology very soon and that the new software would complement the Azyxxi solution currently offered by Redmond.
