Microsoft Helps Developers of Clinical User Interfaces Improve Efficiency, Patient Safety With Fr...(g for Health the government agency taske...),Health

Date:9/9/2007

g for Health, the government agency tasked with delivering IT change programs for the NHS in England. "Our ultimate goal is to make systems easier to use and more consistent, and increase patient safety in the process. Microsoft's expert role in helping us manage technologies and achieve cost savings is vital; initial feedback is very positive."

The CUI means NHS doctors can spend more time focusing on providing optimal care to their patients and less time worrying about searching for the right way to enter information into the system. The delivery of phase one of the CUI is a milestone in Microsoft's ongoing work to transform healthcare across England and worldwide.

CUI Fundamental to Microsoft's Healthcare Vision

Following the design philosophy of the Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint -- a platform-agnostic set of design guidance and tools for delivering services oriented architectures for health -- the CUI provides both platform-independent guidance for designing clinical interfaces that can be implemented on any software technology, as well as a reference implementation on the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework. The CUI implementation is an important element of the Connected Health Platform, Microsoft's implementation of the Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint. The Connected Health Platform is in turn part of Microsoft's overarching vision to help improve health around the world. That vision, termed Knowledge Driven Health, brings together Microsoft products, technologies and services with partner solutions to enable and support advances in world health. The CUI design guide sets a standard for the display of critical medical details. During the rigorous user-centered design process, more than 100 clinical needs were identified for standardization -- from how names are displayed to the display of patient information, dosages and dates. The toolkit turns the design guide into software co
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