Webcast: Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Client Devices offering for Health
Date: 12/3/2009
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Webcast: Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Client Devices offering for Health
Thursday, December 3, 2009
10:00 am - 11:00 am Central
(17:00 CET / 16:00 GMT / 12:00 pm EST / 10:00 am CST / 8:00 am PST)
Teddy Bachour, Senior Industry Technical Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
Eve Psalti, Senior Windows Marketing Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Werner Van Huffel, Industry Technical Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
Windows 7 is a key component of the Microsoft Windows Optimized Client Devices (WOCD) offering, one of four Microsoft ICT Offerings in Health for enabling ICT departments to become strategic assets to their Health organization as they are increasingly challenged to provide more value to the care delivery system with reduced budgets.
In this session, you will learn about key benefits for Windows 7 in health and how WOCD will help Healthcare and Public Health and Social Services organizations empower care professionals, patients, and citizens to be more productive from virtually anywhere, simplify application and resource management across physical and virtual capabilities, and enable better security and privacy controls.
About the Speakers
Teddy Bachour, Senior Industry Technical Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
Teddy is responsible for developing and delivering Microsoft’s technical strategy and connected architecture for the Public Sector WW Health Industry, working with health-related standards organizations, and providing technical guidance and direction to the partners, Microsoft business groups, customers and the WW Health Sales teams.
Before joining the Microsoft Health organization in year 2000, Teddy spent 10 years working for a healthcare ISV as signal processing engineer on ultrasound fetal monitors and then as lead architect on an EMR system for labor and delivery. During his 10 years at Microsoft and before his current role, Teddy took different roles within the Microsoft Consulting organization ranging from Health Solutions Architect, Enterprise Strategy Consultant for 2 of the largest Providers in the State of WA, Partner Strategy Consultant for Accenture.
Teddy has a PMP certification and holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Ecole Superieure des Ingenieurs de Beyrouth, a Masters in Computer and Information Sciences from University of New Haven CT, and a Masters in Management from Central Connecticut State University.
Eve Psalti, Senior Windows Marketing Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Eve Psalti is responsible for the worldwide marketing strategy of Windows and the Optimized Desktop in the Enterprise, collaborating across sales, marketing and partner organizations to drive results in this segment. During her 6 years at Microsoft Eve has been successfully driving marketing campaigns with WW Services and the US Business & Marketing Organization. Before joining Microsoft, Eve held marketing positions in automotive and healthcare industry companies in Greece and in The Netherlands.
Werner Van Huffel, Industry Technical Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
Werner Van Huffel is the Healthcare industry technology strategist in the Healthcare and Social Services team for Public Sector in Microsoft Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Werner specializes in Healthcare integration implementation and architectures and is involved in standards groups including HL7, CCOW, openEHR and others.
He has worked within the Healthcare IT industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2007, Van Huffel worked for IBM Australia as an integration specialist in Healthcare for the WebSphere group. During his time at IBM, Van Huffel developed the Healthcare Services Bus and, in 2006, he co-authored an IBM Redbook entitled Healthcare Collaborative Network Solution Planning and Implementation. During his undergraduate years, he ran his own clinical IT services company delivering training and software development services to general practitioners.
Werner graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia, with a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Information Management–Health Informatics, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Computing Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
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