The Benefits of Using Microsoft Health CUI
Whilst focusing on improving patient safety and clinical effectiveness, the Microsoft
Health CUI Design Guidance and Toolkit controls provide additional benefits to clinical
and software providers.
Healthcare Professionals
Clinical Business Decision Makers
I am responsible for analyzing the business requirements of our establishment, ensuring
that the healthcare information technology we use supports our key patient safety
goals
Key issues:
- Unable to identify requirements that will change how end-users perform their core
tasks in order to meet patient safety requirements and promote clinical empowerment
- Making an inaccurate analysis of patient safety requirements
- Not including all relevant information needed to ensure that patient safety requirements
are met during the design and development of the healthcare applications
How Microsoft Health CUI can help:
A rigorous, user-centered and iterative design,
development process, which incorporates regular reviews and feedback from
a wide range of clinical and I.T. professionals, is used to create the Design Guidance
and Toolkit controls. This ensures they conform to Best Practice, and their validity
in meeting patient safety requirements.
Healthcare Workers
I use clinical applications in a healthcare environment every day, and depend on
them for safely and accurately recording our patient's details, diagnosis, and medications
Key issues:
- Making decisions regarding a patient's care without having access to all of their
data
- Making errors whilst entering patient information due to the complexity of the user
interface
- Insufficient training for each clinical application to use it efficiently
How Microsoft Health CUI can help:
A clear, consistent and simple interface enables healthcare workers to perform their
jobs more efficiently by being able to find, view and enter patient information
in a predictable and easily recognizable manner. This also aids in the reduction
of their cognitive load and the need for specialist training.
Healthcare Software Providers
Business Decision Makers
I am responsible for defining the features for our new and current healthcare products,
including the capturing, and prioritizing of, customer requirements
Key issues:
- Inability to prioritize the development of features that will provide the most benefits
to the healthcare industry
How Microsoft Health CUI can help:
Through extensive research, the Microsoft Health CUI Design Guidance and Toolkit
controls, which have been selected for publication, have been identified as those
that have the highest benefit for increasing patient safety and clinical performance
within the healthcare industry.
User Interface Designers
I am responsible for ensuring that new features are incorporated into the design
of our healthcare applications
Key issues:
- Incorrect or incomplete interpretation of new features in design specifications
- Incompatibility with third-party healthcare applications
- Difficulty in finding widely recognized clinical iconography
- A drain on human, time and financial resources whilst drawing up our design specifications
How Microsoft Health CUI can help:
Detailed information is provided in the Microsoft Health CUI Design Guidance to
ensure correct implementation. These can be incorporated into the ISVs design specifications,
and, if required, extended to suit further requirements. This also helps to reduce
human, time and financial utilization during the Design phase. The Design Guidance
is platform independent and meets Best
Practices within the healthcare industry.
Developers
I am responsible for creating the code for our healthcare applications as per our
design specifications
Key issues:
- Incorrect implementation of the new features identified in design specifications
- A drain on human, time and financial resources whilst developing our clinical application
How Microsoft Health CUI can help:
Toolkit controls are provided that conform to the Microsoft Health CUI Design Guidance.
These can be incorporated into the clinical application, or the source code can
be extended to suit further requirements. This ensures correct implementation and
aids in the reduction of human, time and financial utilization during the Development
phase. The Toolkit controls use the latest Microsoft technologies and meet Best
Practices within the healthcare industry, therefore reducing incompatibility issues
with third-party healthcare systems.