Does Microsoft have plans to increase technology friendliness of doctors through education programs?
A. One major reason for the bottleneck is the healthcare industrys own conservative attitude and reluctance to change. For example, it currently takes 17 years for a new drug to be fully approved. It does not help that the advancement in healthcare is often inextricably tied to a governments agenda, which puts additional consideration in areas like political sensitivity, employment issues and so on, giving greater reason for highly conservative attitude. At Microsoft, we believe that we are in a unique position to deliver solutions that span from the hospital to the physicians office to the patients home. Our willingness to partner with other leading industry vendors further expands the reach of the Microsoft platform in Health IT. With a friendly, consistent user experience and rich set of services, we believe that doctors will more readily accept Microsoft-based healthcare solutions than older, legacy products. As mentioned before, we are taking a long-term view in our approach and i
