Microsoft Research: Research & Programs for Healthcare

Ever wonder what goes on with Health Care research at Microsoft...well here's a short preview of some of what is going on...several links listed below on different areas of health care research...BD

eScience is immensely rich in computational challenges; we work to identify emerging areas of research in the academic community through conferences which focus on common computational challenges across many disciplines and smaller events which focus on challenges specific to a research domain. We periodically solicit proposals from the academic community in an effort to understand a specific problem area and explore potential areas where Microsoft may be able to make a contribution. Our specific interests change over time, but current areas of interest include:

Assisted cognition
Social networks
Capture of large-scale sensor data
Building tools for bioinformatics
Synthetic biology
Biomedical informatics
Mobile devices and healthcare
Personalized medicine
Cross-disciplinary research and education

“Microsoft as a corporation has always had a really strong desire to do things that are socially relevant,” Tolle says. “What better way to be good corporate citizens than to put money into supporting medical research?

“There is a disparity in different countries’ abilities to do medical research and provide better health care to their populations,” she adds. “We are planning a global medical-research initiative that financially supports best-of-breed research in computational medicine with the hope that we can have a positive impact on the equalization of world health care.”