The company said it would acquire software, intellectual property and other assets from Global Care Solutions (GCS) – a privately held company based in Bangkok – that develops enterprise-class health information systems.
GCS employees will join Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group, which will manage product development and delivery. Financial terms were not disclosed. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Global Care Solution system is a fully integrated suite of 50 clinical and back-office application modules designed and optimised to run all hospital clinical and administrative operations on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
It is implemented and in use in seven hospitals around the Asia-Pacific region.
“We have been developing this product passionately for several years and are thrilled to see a company with the resources of Microsoft poised to bring it to a bigger world stage,” Global Care Solutions chief executive Pat Downing said.
Global Care Solutions designed and developed its end-to-end system in collaboration with Bumrungrad, an internationally accredited hospital in Bangkok.
“We were impressed by Global Care Solutions’ state-of-the-art health information system, which has enabled a hugely complex facility like Bumrungrad International hospital to achieve amazing outcomes related to improved workflow and patient safety,” said Microsoft Health Solutions Group corporate vice president Peter Neupert.
“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.”
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