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Increasing Patient Safety Through Improved User Interfaces

Susan Brown - subrown@microsoft.com

Microsoft NHS CUI Programme Manager

Agenda

• Today – What is happening today to increase Patient Safety?

• Tomorrow – What is the vision?• Future – What coming next?

Challenge today

Clinical User Interfaces

NHS CUI (COMMON USER INTERFACE) PROGRAMME

Microsoft and NHS in partnership

National Health Service CUI Programme

• A Microsoft funded collaboration with the National Health Service in England (£40 million investment for Common User Interface CUI)

• A four year programme that started in 2005 and is focused on helping the NHS:– Increase patient safety– Increase clinician effectiveness– Increase the ease of adoption & relevance of

Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to the NHS

NHS CUI Programme Outcomes

• User Interface Standards for clinical systems • Microsoft Windows-based components for clinical

applications • Both can be adopted to be easy to use, enable patient

safety, and provide consistency of user experience• Concept prototypes to illustrates the art of the possible with

clinical UI and new and emerging technologies

MICROSOFT HEALTH COMMON USER INTERFACE - WWW.MSCUI.NET

Microsoft in Health

Vision for Tomorrow

• A rich set of guidance and controls for clinical application developers from NHS CUI Programme

• Next-generation clinical applications providing safer, and clearer information to its users

• Innovation for the Healthcare industry resulting in safer user interfaces

A glimpse into the future?

The future of Healthcare Video

How can you help?

• Engage with the NHS CUI Programme• Engage in the broader community

– Download and review MSCUI– What are your patient safety priorities ?– How can we make the Guidance and Controls more

useful for you ?

• Use the Codeplex Issue Tracker and Discussion Forums to tell us what you think

Getting More Information

• Microsoft Health Industry Centre on MSDNmsdn.microsoft.com/health

• Microsoft Health Common User Interfacewww.mscui.net

• Microsoft Health CUI Community Projectwww.codeplex.com/mscui

• Microsoft NHS Resource Centrewww.microsoft.com/uk/nhs