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Date:5/13/2008

ovide richer and more flexible user interfaces for specific healthcare implementations. In addition, an 18-month interactive road map for the design guidance and controls is available today, intended for software and application developers who want to better understand updated timelines and ways they can participate in the Microsoft Health CUI community.

"A common look and feel to systems across any institution decreases the chances for errors, but nowhere is that more important than a healthcare institution where lives are at stake," said Tim Smokoff, general manager of worldwide public sector, Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences division. "Sharing the road map for the next 18 months allows developers to plan for new updates to the Microsoft Health Common User Interface, meaning they can implement them faster and with better success, reducing the margin for error and challenges."

Potential Benefits for Healthcare Institutions and Partners

Today's announcement furthers Microsoft's ongoing commitment to help leverage the power of software to transform the healthcare industry for patients, healthcare providers and professionals. The CUI design guidance sets standards for the display and interaction of key clinical data within electronic patient records, such as medications, clinical notes and demographic information. The toolkit turns the design guidance into software components that developers and health customers can deploy in their own existing or upcoming clinical applications, saving their customers both money and time to market.

"The Microsoft Health CUI is a key building block to increasing application time-to-market, clinician productivity and patient safety across the healthcare industry," said Roger Killen, managing director of The Learning Clinic, a U.K.-based healthcare industry consultant aimed at improving patient care and outcomes. "As an organization developing healthcare applications, it's an essential planning tool to k
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