Using Longhorn in distributed clinical information exchange
Orange County Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
10/27/2003
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Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., outlined Microsoft's vision for the next wave of software development and detailed plans to help developers take advantage of the next wave of software opportunities at Microsoft® Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003. Highlighting platform software and development tools designed to enable developers to build a new generation of "smart," connected applications, Microsoft gave thousands of developers in attendance an early look at a technical preview of the next major release of Windows® , code-named "Longhorn." The company also unveiled the next-generation Windows programming model, named WinFX™ , which provides a high productivity approach for building applications.
Presentation from Merck
Pharmaceutical research firm Merck and Co. and clinical trial automation developer DataLabs Inc. also took the stage, with an application that connects information from patients, doctors and technology systems to automate collection and processing of data in clinical trials based on the interoperability functionality of the "Indigo" technologies. The application will have the ability to connect thousands of clinical trial participants in remote locations, reducing the five- to seven-year time frame typically required for clinical trials by eliminating redundancies in the data collection process.
"Each clinical trial has hundreds of patients, physicians, scientists and regulators that all need to work together, who are rarely under the same roof, or in the same organization, or on the same network," said Rich Gleeson, vice president of Enterprise Solutions at DataLabs. "With the developer capabilities in Windows 'Longhorn,' we will have the ability to build a new class of more-secure and connected business applications that connect real-world relationships among people with powerful software to drive greater business efficiencies across the entire clinical trial process.
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