Microsoft places Azyxxi with Novant

Microsoft reported that Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health will implement the Redmond, Wash.-based firm’s Azyxxi unified health enterprise platform throughout its healthcare network.

Azyxxi is a system that aggregates and enables analysis of relevant data from across an organization’s existing clinical, financial and administrative systems. Microsoft acquired the Azyxxi product in 2006.

Novant said it will implement Azyxxi throughout its enterprise, initially focusing on intensive care units and emergency departments and then expanding throughout its eight acute care hospitals and an 800-physician medical group.

Azyxxi has been adopted by the Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore; MedStar Health in Columbia, Md.; NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City; and the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange in Mequon, Wis., according to Microsoft.

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