Microsoft has a new digital health research initiative in the U.K.

Iain Buchan [Image courtesy of Microsoft]

Microsoft has tapped a top British health data researcher to head a new healthcare research initiative at its Cambridge research lab.

Iain Buchan is presently a clinical professor of public health informatics at the University of Manchester – and director of the Health eResearch Centre, which is part of the U.K.’s Medical Research Council.

Buchan will become director of healthcare research at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, effective Oct. 2. He’ll report to the lab’s director Chris Bishop.

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