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    Welcome

    The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides User Interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide range of patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations worldwide, allowing a new generation of safer, more usable and compelling health applications to be quickly and easily created.

    This site is aimed at user interface designers, application developers and patient safety experts who want to find out more about the benefits of a standardized approach to user interface design.

    With the Microsoft Health CUI you can:

    • Interactively browse and download our published Design Guidance documents
    • Interact with our on-line implementations of the Toolkit Controls and Samples that conform to the Design Guidance
    • Download and install the Toolkit controls for use in Microsoft Visual Studio
    • View our new Showcase, which shows how the adoption of the Design Guidance has benefited clinical application and healthcare providers through testimonials, and provides practical and innovative scenarios through demonstrators
    • Visit the Roadmap, to learn about the Microsoft Health CUI development schedule, the architecture of the Toolkit controls, and the delivery lifecycle used to create the Design Guidance, Toolkit controls and samples

  2. GET INVOLVED

    We welcome all input and warmly invite clinical application and healthcare providers to participate in the ongoing development of the Microsoft Health CUI. A unified body of Design Guidance and supporting controls will be maintained based on your feedback and suggestions.

    If you would like to work with us on the future development of the Microsoft Health CUI and improve patient safety, you can get involved using one of the following methods:

    • If you are a user interface designer, application developer or patient safety expert, please access the CodePlex discussion forum
    • If you represent an organization that is interested in adopting the Microsoft Health CUI for use in your healthcare applications, contact us at mscui@microsoft.com to discuss collaboration opportunities