We would like to tell you about the additions and enhancements we’ve made to Microsoft Health CUI in the February 2009 release.
New Design Guidance and Toolkit Controls
We’ve released the following new features:
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Graphing Control: The graphing control is the most functionally rich of the CUI controls released to date. This sample application presents a set of features to promote quick understanding and detailed interrogation of data. These features include a focus line to reveal values across all graphed data, an option to display and hide data labels and the ability to remove, replace and reorder the stacked graphs.
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Design Guidance – Displaying Adverse Drug Reaction Risks: This new guidance (referencing a study which found that an estimated 6.5% of hospital admissions are due to an adverse drug reaction) provides recommendations for indicating which drugs present a risk to a patient, based upon adverse drug reactions the patient has had in the past. It addresses how to display a summary of these drugs and the nature of the reactions the patient has suffered, to support clinician decision making.
We’ve also made the following updates to existing items:
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MedicationsListView control: In addition to bug fixes in the initial CTP version of the control, we’ve added support for larger datasets and improved keyboard accessibility.
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Showcase Updates
In December, we released a new version of our Patient Journey Demonstrator that includes applications of our latest design guidance, the incorporation of SNOMED CLINICAL TERMS® (provided by Health Language Inc.), and other innovative features.
At the end of 2008, we had the pleasure of meeting with four Independent Software Vendors – Bluewire Technologies, In4tek (now known as Civica), Map of Medicine and The Learning Clinic – who talked about the challenges that they face with technology within the medical arena, and how the Microsoft Health CUI is helping them to overcome these. Please visit our Testimonials page to see their interviews.
New Look Home Page
We’ve altered the layout of the Microsoft Health CUI Home page. We hope it is now much easier for you to see our latest news and updates to Microsoft Health CUI. We’ve also included a summary of the latest blog published on this site.
We hope you enjoy using our new features. Please provide feedback to mscui@microsoft.com or on our CodePlex Discussion Boards.