Common User Interface – Update and walk through video

<p> Another updated video on the interface, again it would be nice to have the same visuals at every hospital and perhaps doctor’s offices with the existing programs still running in the background, only the user interface would need to change.  This video takes a little extra time to walk through the various screens, well done.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p><iframe height="325" src="http://on10.net/blogs/tina/23388/player/" frameborder="0" width="320" scrolling="no"></iframe></p> <p><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrYmUInpI/AAAAAAAAGqA/e2Zfau-nbuk/image_thumb7.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" /> <br /><a href="http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Silverlight-Medical/">Silverlight Application tackles the Medical Field </a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html"><font size="1">EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/health-care-has-managed-to-avoid.html">Health care has managed to avoid the information-technology revolution, but it won't for much longer</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-electronic-records-reach-your.html">How electronic records reach your doctor – Integrated through the Hospitals</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/ehr-adoption-remains-off-in-distance.html">EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-technology-centers-software.html">Microsoft Technology Centers – Software Solutions with Assistance and Guidance</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-update-10-2008.html">Common User Interface Update 10-2008</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html">Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/possibility-of-national-electronic.html">Possibility of National Electronic Medical Records System Growing</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-common-user-interface-for.html">Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications- Silverlight...and Windows Presentation Foundation</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2007/09/microsoft-health-common-user-interface.html">Microsoft Health - Common User Interface for the UK</a></h6> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Silverlight-Medical/">Channel 10 - common user interface</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d8de1c09-6da8-4bae-94a0-ef49ce38d8c1" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Records" rel="tag">Medical Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Common+User+Interface" rel="tag">Common User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EMR" rel="tag">EMR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/User+Interface" rel="tag">User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Software" rel="tag">Medical Software</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Templates" rel="tag">Templates</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/HHS" rel="tag">HHS</a></div>

Common User Interface – Update and walk through video

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EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed

<p> If you have read this blog long enough, there are multiple posts about The Common User Interface, an open source project from Microsoft that would in fact have the capabilities to present the same set of templates, data entry screens, etc. at all hospitals and physician offices.  The NHS in the UK has been the pioneering force in bringing the project to light; however there have been thousands of downloads from the site, so there are developers working all over to hopefully bring this to light.  <img align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrYmUInpI/AAAAAAAAGqA/e2Zfau-nbuk/image_thumb7.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" /> </p> <p>I don’t know of any physician or medical staff member who would not like to see the same interface at any hospital or doctor’s office, as how many different software applications do they have time to learn today and still provide high quality healthcare.  Unfortunately just due to the way medical records have evolved with different companies creating their own software solutions we have a myriad of software applications that are getting more confusing and difficult for the end users all the time, and this really is not just limited to healthcare for that matter.</p> <p>The project is dynamic and includes some very nice Silverlight effects as well, a real potential winner in my estimation, and the pictures below show how it looks in it’s present form.  The related reading has videos and even more additional information to read to learn about the project and how the interface would serve to bring everything together under one roof, and this is open source, so anyone can download and develop, and Linux for Silverlight is out there now too, so it is multiplatform. <strong> So would this not be nice to have the same screens whether or not the hospital</strong> used Microsoft Amalga, McKesson, Cerner, Epic, Eclipsys, etc. just to name a few, to have the same or similar interface at all hospitals, something HHS might want to take a look at when considering common templates and user interfaces maybe, why start at this point and try to reinvent the wheel for goodness sake when so much of the code needed is already done and more is on the way with developers.  BD  </p> <p>  <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW8CfhrdI/AAAAAAAAJX4/HkLRVrmnr_k/image_thumb5.png?imgmax=800" /></p> <p><img height="311" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOEcT38TB-I/AAAAAAAAJMY/lTG8UH1utgU/image[9].png?imgmax=800" width="402" /> </p> <p><img height="327" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrW2UInnI/AAAAAAAAGpw/69_cKKhEsWQ/image22.png?imgmax=800" width="408" /> </p> <p><img height="230" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXSAufC9I/AAAAAAAAJYo/P7wKCqURmu0/image_thumb16.png?imgmax=800" width="403" /> </p> <p><img height="232" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXZp6wpII/AAAAAAAAJY4/gQ1AlxAi0tA/image_thumb29.png?imgmax=800" width="406" /> </p> <blockquote>The Department of Health and Human Services should support creation of standardized, structured templates to ease the collection of regulatory data via electronic health records, according to an advisory group. HHS also should commission an expert panel to investigate documentation and data required by regulatory, licensing, accrediting, quality reporting, and payer organizations, recommends the electronic health records workgroup of the American Health Information Community. The idea is to make it easier for providers to comply with multiple reporting requirements by having templates in all EHRs that support pertinent documentation and reporting of data. The workgroup made its recommendations on Nov. 12 during the final meeting of AHIC, an advisory body to HHS. It is being replaced, subject to decisions of the Obama administration, with a more independent public-private advisory group called AHIC Successor.</blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/reporting27292-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS">Group: EHRs need Standard Templates</a></p> <p><u><strong>Related Reading:</strong></u> </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/health-care-has-managed-to-avoid.html"><font size="1">Health care has managed to avoid the information-technology revolution, but it won't for much longer</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-electronic-records-reach-your.html"><font size="1">How electronic records reach your doctor – Integrated through the Hospitals</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/ehr-adoption-remains-off-in-distance.html">EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-technology-centers-software.html">Microsoft Technology Centers – Software Solutions with Assistance and Guidance</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/going-live-with-microsoft-healthvault.html">Going live with Microsoft HealthVault - Chart Integration at the Hospital</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/07/microsoft-healthvault-and-relayhealth.html">Microsoft HealthVault and RelayHealth (McKesson) to Connect Doctors and Patients</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/hoag-hospital-selects-eclinicalworks.html">Hoag Hospital Selects eClinicalWorks for Its EHR Subsidy Program- Newport Beach, CA</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/eclipsys-acquisition-of-medinotes.html">Eclipsys acquisition of Medinotes stands to open doors for Hospital subsidized medical records and integratio</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-update-10-2008.html"><font size="1">Common User Interface Update 10-2008</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html"><font size="1">Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/possibility-of-national-electronic.html"><font size="1">Possibility of National Electronic Medical Records System Growing</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-common-user-interface-for.html"><font size="1">Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications- Silverlight...and Windows Presentation Foundation</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2007/09/microsoft-health-common-user-interface.html"><font size="1">Microsoft Health - Common User Interface for the UK</font></a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:895188c9-d930-496f-a1a3-47899ab6c251" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Records" rel="tag">Medical Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Common+User+Interface" rel="tag">Common User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EMR" rel="tag">EMR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/User+Interface" rel="tag">User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Software" rel="tag">Medical Software</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Templates" rel="tag">Templates</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/HHS" rel="tag">HHS</a></div>

EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed

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Innovation Without Collaboration Is Fouling Up The US Healthcare IT System–We Need Both As We Can’t Stand on Innovation Alone

<p>Every week I read in the news “we need more innovation” and for goodness sakes <u>in Health IT we have innovation running out our ears!</u>  Everyone is so busy building the better mouse trap that <u>we have forgotten how to collaborate and work together.  </u>We are seeing some signs of this and<u> it usually comes in the form of a merger or acquisition as the economy is dictating much of that to figure out how to maintain current profit levels or how to gain more.</u>  <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/TMdlzzhTk2I/AAAAAAAAibE/kswet5nTyDs/s1600-h/image%5B16%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="183" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/TMdl0mOm81I/AAAAAAAAibI/ShbQzkEcDAY/image_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" width="216" /></a></p> <p>We do a pretty poor job on collaborating and yes there’s a certain amount of competition needed, but in Health IT business intelligence with added transaction fees for each algorithmic process that is added, it is eating us up alive.  <u>In doing this blog I see new press releases every day and what is occurring is all are moving to where the money is, the payables side.</u>  Healthcare reform is working to try and eliminate some of this but in working with old paradigms we keep running into a dead end and the costs for this just keep on rising.</p> <p><strong>There are algorithms written for “accurate” results and those written for “desired” results and the 2 are not always the same and thus when purchasing software or web based services it’s easy to get confused as you will usually get what you bought but at what cost?  </strong></p> <p>We have just about drained one side being the hospitals and doctors that provide these services, <strong>but the payer side with additional complicated algorithms keeps growing and growing and for the most part this is all proprietary systems generated to make a profit.</strong>  I don’t deny anyone the opportunity to make money but the scale is lopsided to the extreme to where it ties one hand behind the clinical side today.  Pharma and insurance companies are not going to be able to sustain the levels of <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/TMdl09BEamI/AAAAAAAAibM/9OAS1lx_uH4/s1600-h/image%5B11%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="62" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/TMdl1Nl45mI/AAAAAAAAibQ/IchjYH91ETU/image_thumb%5B4%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" width="204" /></a>profits seen in the past, it’s a given and to keep pulling that cord and having drugs covered with extensive patents and costs won’t cut it, same with insurance and those folks are the experts on how to adjust algorithms for profit, they live by them. </p> <p>This is worth a mention here and I have repotted on it many times with the<strong><u> open </u></strong><a href="http://www.mscui.net/"><strong><u><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="277" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/TMdl1kc4hRI/AAAAAAAAibU/Vz1N4qwkTVM/image%5B12%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" width="204" /></u></strong></a><strong><u>source free software from Microsoft with the Common User Interface</u></strong>, <u>been out there since 2008 for free, open for any company to work with and I have suggested it many times, did anybody bite, no.</u> Doctors would have loved this to be able to go to any hospital and have common and either similar or the same screens to find the patient information they needed.  <u>Ask any MD and I don’t think you will find one that wants to learn numerous systems</u>.  Did it take off, no as <u>we were all to busy with innovation without collaboration</u> and the doctors and clinicians will just have to deal with what was created.  </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-common-user-interface-for.html"><font size="2">Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications- Silverlight...and Windows Presentation Foundation</font></a></h4> <p>Take a look and see what it looked like in 2008, pretty snazzy and high functioning too.  I did a video walk through in the video and has SNOMED too. </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 356px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:74982cc7-1f13-4aed-a5bb-f97f003aad45" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="b0ef69a2-a807-45b2-aad5-0ad6b78fb14c" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJALVQo-HyM" target="_new"><img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('b0ef69a2-a807-45b2-aad5-0ad6b78fb14c'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"356\" height=\"216\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/eJALVQo-HyM?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/eJALVQo-HyM?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"356\" height=\"216\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/TMhvTnYfuYI/AAAAAAAAibg/MBVJ0NqHSgQ/videoe64ea7b28c97%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none"></a></div></div><div style="width:356px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">Common User Interface</div></div> <p>It is a sad state of affairs that we are to the point of massive complication we live with today and nobody likes it but we spend all our time innovating and not enough collaborating.  </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html"><font size="2">EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed</font></a></h4> <p>There’s a lot of other open source stuff over there too at Code Plex.  <img align="right" border="0" height="44" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/Sqn9nQygR5I/AAAAAAAAZ3g/fmy4sWCAPqc/image%5B4%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" width="134" /></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/09/codeplex-foundation-new-open-source-non.html"><font size="2">The CodePlex Foundation - New Open-source Non Profit Foundation Funded by Microsoft</font></a></h4> <p><strong><u>To make my point even further, here’s a doctor/developer in New Zealand</u></strong> who is not even writing in any Microsoft language, but yet he was pretty well able to emulate the screens, so no barriers there.  </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html"><font size="2">Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress</font></a></h4> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW-EJOdhI/AAAAAAAAJX8/b3beO2Z1fSs/s1600-h/image43.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="110" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW_YmGy1I/AAAAAAAAJYA/weaV1If_w78/image_thumb23.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" width="183" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXBuYQ-tI/AAAAAAAAJYE/PyXXcCpgN_A/s1600-h/image47.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="113" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXDF7GvBI/AAAAAAAAJYI/CXzmST6gAKo/image_thumb25.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" width="197" /></a></p> <p>There are more images at the link to see more.  Also when I went last year to the World Tourism Congress<strong><u> I talked quite a while with a professor from Germany, Prof. Dr. Horst Kunhardt, Department of Business Informatics, University of App. Sc. Deggendorf</u></strong> ,  who wrote a medical records system what was being used by several hospitals over there.  We talked a lot about screens and code but you <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/11/world-medical-tourism-conference-2009.html">can read a bit more here</a></strong> and see some of his screens.  </p> <p><em>“This is the work of Mr. Prof. Dr. Horst Kunhardt, Department of Business Informatics, University of App. Sc. Deggendorf and you can use the link here to a </em><a href="http://mycare2x.net/en/livedemo.html"><em>live demo</em></a><em> to see how it works.  I was curious having written an ambulatory EMR years ago myself just to see how it all came together.  The system is created with open source software with my SQL and PHP for the demo shown.   If you want to read up a bit more on German Medical Tourism, </em><a href="http://www.german-healthcare-services.com/index.php?id=28"><em>here’s a link to follow.</em></a></p> <p><img border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/Su-efKBdCLI/AAAAAAAAaxw/tjAK4Ttw5J8/image%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" /></p> <p><strong>This brings me back to the intent of the post with the<u> <a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20101026/MODERNPHYSICIAN/101029961/-1#">Medical Group Management Association's annual conference<u> keynote from Dr. Bill Crounse of Microsoft</u></a></u></strong><strong></strong><u> </u><strong>and he makes the point very well in the fact that the need for the $150 million dollar systems need to come to a close – <u>collaboration with innovation will be the winner</u> as innovation alone as we are seeing is leading to nothing more than <u>a further fragmentation of our systems and goals.</u>  We can do this too without relying totally on mergers and acquisitions to drive all of this at the last minute and as Dr. Crounse mentions complicated systems now becoming a safety issue, and we are also seeing an increase in the use of scribes to deal with this complexity.  BD    </strong></p> <blockquote> <p>While spending less per capita on health IT, U.S. hospitals also manage to spend more on individual projects, and Crounse said it “offends” him to hear about U.S. hospitals breaking their budgets on $150 million electronic health-record systems. He said some foreign hospitals can customize “off-the-shelf” products and wire their institutions for $3 million to $5 million with systems that can “run circles around” what is used here. “I hope the days of $150 million systems come to a close,” Crounse said.<strong> “They don't spend that much money in other countries and, often, they have better solutions.” <br /></strong>One specific problem Crounse cited was the lack of “intuitive user interfaces.” He noted how Seattle community physicians and nurses who may see patients in multiple hospitals need to learn how to operate multiple EHR systems that can vary greatly hospital to hospital.<strong> “It's a friggin' nightmare,” Crounse said. “Not only is it a nightmare, I believe it's a patient-safety issue.”</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><u><strong>Related Reading:</strong></u></p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/ehr-adoption-remains-off-in-distance.html">EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-technology-centers-software.html">Microsoft Technology Centers – Software Solutions with Assistance and Guidance</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-update-10-2008.html">Common User Interface Update 10-2008</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html">Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/possibility-of-national-electronic.html">Possibility of National Electronic Medical Records System Growing</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-common-user-interface-for.html">Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications- Silverlight...and Windows Presentation Foundation</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2007/09/microsoft-health-common-user-interface.html">Microsoft Health - Common User Interface for the UK</a></h6> <p><a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20101026/MODERNPHYSICIAN/101029961/-1#">Tech lag is safety issue: Microsoft director - Modern Physician</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0ddc9680-f224-4f59-ac8b-b5ee2854a743" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Records" rel="tag">Medical Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Common+User+Interface" rel="tag">Common User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EMR" rel="tag">EMR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/User+Interface" rel="tag">User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Software" rel="tag">Medical Software</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Templates" rel="tag">Templates</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/HHS" rel="tag">HHS</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Bill+Crounse" rel="tag">Bill Crounse</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Group+Management+Association" rel="tag">Medical Group Management Association</a></div>

Innovation Without Collaboration Is Fouling Up The US Healthcare IT System–We Need Both As We Can’t Stand on Innovation Alone

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Electronic Health Records Not Enough – Aggregation and Better Interfaces Needed

<p> This article makes a lot of sense and I have said somewhat the same in various posts over the last year, and this is where aggregating data is coming in to play, one place to add, edit and read information.  </p> <p>One other item that I think has potential is the <strong><a href="http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Silverlight-Medical/">Common User Interface,</a></strong> so why can’t all the EHR/EMR systems look at least somewhat the same?  Right now a doctor has to learn multiple systems and that can be multiple systems at multiple hospitals, so the information and processes change with each location, I think we need to make the interface the same or very similar and make the records process simpler for the doctors.  Also, the interface need to be dynamic enough to allow for quick screen changes and a minimal amount of clicks.  When I wrote my EMR, that was one of the biggest complaints “too many clicks”.  </p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/computer-technology-can-cut-into.html">Computer technology can cut into personalized patient care with complexity and complicated user interfaces</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/ehr-adoption-remains-off-in-distance.html">EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated</a></h6> <p>We are almost at the point of needing standards for “user interfaces” too as the amount of information required and queried is growing so it is more of a task to have to learn multiple systems.  </p> <p>Silverlight has some answers to dynamics and the screen used and it working it’s way into a genomic interface too. </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/03/genomics-and-silverlight-from-microsoft.html">Genomics and Silverlight from Microsoft working together for Great Visual Enhancement– BioMashUps</a></h4> <p>Something to give some thought to as things grow and become more complicated, so do the interfaces sometimes and now there’s really not a lot of time to duel it out over who has the best interface, as the real data work and systems are behind the scenes and that is with any system.  BD   </p> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-common-user-interface-for.html"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW8CfhrdI/AAAAAAAAJX4/HkLRVrmnr_k/image_thumb5.png?imgmax=800" /></a></p> <p><strong>So would this not be nice to have the same screens whether or not the hospital</strong> used Microsoft Amalga, McKesson, Cerner, Epic, Eclipsys, etc. just to name a few, to have the same or similar interface at all hospitals, something HHS might want to take a look at when considering common templates and user interfaces maybe, why start at this point and try to reinvent the wheel for goodness sake when so much of the code needed is already done and more is on the way with developers.</p> <p><a href="http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Silverlight-Medical/"><img height="311" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOEcT38TB-I/AAAAAAAAJMY/lTG8UH1utgU/image%5B9%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="402" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Not only do doctors and hospitals need to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), but those digital records need to be easy to share with patients and health care providers, said Dr. Doug Henley, executive vice president with the American Academy of Family Physicians.</p> <p>And the current crop of EHRs still needs work, as doctors have to wade through multiple pages of data and<strong> enter the same information on multiple pages</strong>, added Dr. Kevin Hughes, a breast cancer surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.<strong> After the doctor enters the patient's health data once, the EHR should automatically populate itself with that information</strong>, he said at a health IT forum in Washington, D.C., hosted by IBM and the eHealth Initiative. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/161670/ehealth_records_not_enough_experts_say.html">E-health Records Not Enough, Experts Say - PC World</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/theres-no-good-reason-to-delay-data.html">There’s No Good Reason to Delay Data Liquidity and Information Sharing in Healthcare..</a></h6> <h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/two-more-hospitals-sign-for-amalga-from.html"><font color="#669966"></font></a></h6> <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/wisconsin-health-information-exchange.html">Wisconsin Health Information Exchange RHIO connected with Amalga from Microsoft</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/most-hospital-patients-unable-to.html"><font size="1">Most Hospital Patients Unable to Identify Their Physicians - Survey</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/silverlight-blamed-for-restructuring-at.html">Silverlight Blamed for Restructuring at Netflix, It works too good, Could do the same for Medical Records with Common User Interface</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html">EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html">Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html">Common User Interface – Update and walk through video</a></h6> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3210499f-b90d-4a60-9189-2ef167deb6be" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Records" rel="tag">Medical Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Common+User+Interface" rel="tag">Common User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EMR" rel="tag">EMR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/User+Interface" rel="tag">User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Software" rel="tag">Medical Software</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Templates" rel="tag">Templates</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare+standards" rel="tag">healthcare standards</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ehealth" rel="tag">ehealth</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/interoperability" rel="tag">interoperability</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/CodePlex" rel="tag">CodePlex</a></div>

Electronic Health Records Not Enough – Aggregation and Better Interfaces Needed

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Genomics and Silverlight from Microsoft working together for Great Visual Enhancement– BioMashUps

<p><strong><u>Hard Hat Area:</u></strong>  The University is soon to post on <strong>CodePlex,</strong> the open source community page from Microsoft.  What is amazing to me is the fact that the Popfly platform was used for Silvermap, so now we have bio-mashups too.  The processing of images can now take place at the desktop instead of the server level and this speeds up the process tremendously instead of having to wait.  The amount of information to be read and deciphered is huge and this brings the desired information into a form where it can be digested and utilized quickly.  </p> <p>BioMashups are defined here:  </p> <h5><strong><a href="http://www.mquter.qut.edu.au/bio/biomashups.aspx">Biomashups and Mashup Frameworks</a></strong></h5> <p><em>“An alternative approach to bioinformatics analysis is to make use of web mashups. Mashups rapidly combine data and services from multiple <a href="http://www.mquter.qut.edu.au/bio/biomashups.aspx"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="217" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/ScKPoiDEfxI/AAAAAAAAOvg/xfW7M_q4SDc/image%5B17%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="244" /></a>sources within a single web based application. Mashups therefore offer a means for the integration of various bioinformatics tools, allowing a specific task to be performed efficiently. Although mashups can be ad hoc, limited in scope and eminently disposable, if properly developed, the model can handle more substantial computational experiments and support a culture of sharing and re-use.”</em>  </p> <p>In the Pop Fly example a student looks for the protein coding nucleotide sequence, and is asked to determine the gene family and to perform a search to obtain more information about the gene.</p> <p><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="53" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SWe3xIi1ZNI/AAAAAAAAN00/aS6TYSm42is/image%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="image" width="163" /></a></p> <p>This is wild and dynamic and certainly a help for those in research and development with genomics.  <strong>I have written several times about the <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html">Common User Interface,</a> a CodePlex open source software</strong> available for free for any medical records software vendor and you can view more information here.  The Common User Interface uses the dynamics of Silverlight, like you see on Netflix and on the Presidential Inauguration, for health care charting with the hope that someday interest will prevail here with vendors coming to some sort of unified interface so the screens are the same or similar for the clinical staff at every hospital or doctor’s office. </p> <p><img align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrYmUInpI/AAAAAAAAGqA/e2Zfau-nbuk/image_thumb7.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" /></p> <p>  </p> <h4> </h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html"><font size="1">Common User Interface – Update and walk through video</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html"><font size="1">EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/personalized-medicine-will-rely-on-it.html"><font size="1">Personalized medicine will rely on IT – It’s all about Software</font></a></h4> <p>There’s also this <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/vanderbilt-university-medical-center.html">story from Vanderbilt on how they are using Silverlight</a> for early and immediate detection of Sepsis, a good read.  BD</p> <p>Silverlight tools that help researchers make sense of complex genome data and patterns are being included in the advanced bioinformatics syllabus at the Queensland University of Technology.  Genomic research is coming to the forefront, especially with clinical trials so this seems like somewhat of a natural to combine both technologies in the process, plus again, the dynamics and ability to drill down and see information immediately in this format is great.  </p> <blockquote> <p>The tools have been developed out of the Microsoft QUT eResearch Centre, a $2.7 million joint venture funded by Microsoft Research and the Queensland State Government. <br />One of the tools, <a href="http://www.mquter.qut.edu.au/bio/silvergene_default.aspx">Silvergene</a>, is a genomic visualizes designed to replace existing genome browsers.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/ScKPpSuYBcI/AAAAAAAAOvk/u6vdPw6khHc/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="44" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/ScKPqD9IBKI/AAAAAAAAOvo/WjboN9Ilv-U/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="152" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://bio.mquter.qut.edu.au/silvergene/silvergene.html"><img alt="image" border="0" height="167" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/ScKPrbIICVI/AAAAAAAAOvs/t4W2WOP92jM/image%5B8%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="388" /></a> </p> <p>By using Microsoft Silverlight - a rich browser plug-in - Hogan said QUT had been able to enable the image processing to occur at the desktop level rather than the server. <br />"We can generate using Silverlight on-the-fly at the desktop," Hogan said.</p> <p>Hogan said the Centre has also developed an application that brings map navigation to genomics called <a href="http://www.mquter.qut.edu.au/bio/silvermap_default.aspx">Silvermap</a>, and a set of <a href="http://www.mquter.qut.edu.au/bio/biomashups.aspx">bioinformatics analysis ‘blocks'</a> based on <strong><a href="http://www.popfly.com/">Microsoft's Popfly</a></strong> technology.</p> <p><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/"></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/ScKPuJOkxlI/AAAAAAAAOvw/_LUKXb_9rQQ/s1600-h/image%5B12%5D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="328" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/ScKPvwOGswI/AAAAAAAAOv0/FOU1Xgxe4kk/image_thumb%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="359" /></a> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html">QUT Silverlight fruits seeded in syllabus - Software - iTnews Australia</a></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/netflix-shares-doing-welltechnology.html"><font size="1">Netflix shares Doing Well…Technology just might have something to do with that, technology that helps healthcare as well</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/02/steve-shihadeh-vp-microsoft-health.html"><font size="1">Steve Shihadeh, VP Microsoft Health Solutions Group – The Amalga Software Solution for Aggregating Hospital Information (Interview)</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/watch-presidential-inauguration-in.html"><font size="1">Watch the Presidential Inauguration in Silverlight – as selected by the Inaugural Committee</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/silverlight-blamed-for-restructuring-at.html"><font size="1">Silverlight Blamed for Restructuring at Netflix, It works too good, Could do the same for Medical Records with Common User Interface</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html"><font size="1">Common User Interface – Update and walk through video</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/silverlight-books-all-books-on.html"><font size="1">Silverlight Books - all books on Microsoft Silverlight Development</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-linking-silverlight-ruby-on.html"><font size="1">Microsoft linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/silverlight-training-videos.html"><font size="1">Silverlight Training Videos</font></a></h4> <p> <p><strong><em></em></strong></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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Genomics and Silverlight from Microsoft working together for Great Visual Enhancement– BioMashUps

Hard Hat Area:   The University is soon to post on CodePlex, the open source community page from Microsoft.  What is amazing to me is the f...

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Microsoft HealthVault and Common User Interface Presentation from the UK - Slideshow

<p>This slide show combines both HealthVault and information on the <strong><a href="http://www.mscui.net/">Common User Interface.</a></strong>  If you are not familiar with the Common User Interface it is open source code at Code Plex that anyone can download and develop to create simple yet dynamic screens for entering and viewing patient data.  The eventual goal is to embrace the interface at numerous facilities and hospital so you don’t have doctors and staff members having to learn multiple EMR/EHR systems.  Once MD told me he had to learn 5 different systems to get through his internship with different hospitals.  </p> <p>There are additional links below with videos on the Common User Interface and it is free again for anyone to work with and develop and there’s a forum set up where developers can share notes and comments as well so everyone is helping everyone else.  To view the demonstrations on each module you can <a href="http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/">click here.</a>  You do need Silverlight installed to view.  BD</p> <div style="text-align: left; width: 425px" id="__ss_1603981"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/innerear/microsoft-health-vault?type=powerpoint" style="margin: 12px 0px 3px; display: block; font: 14px helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: underline" title="Microsoft Health Vault">Microsoft Health Vault</a><object height="355" style="margin:0px" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=pres2-1mhshorthealthvaultinternationaloverviewjun2009-090618110437-phpapp02&stripped_title=microsoft-health-vault" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=pres2-1mhshorthealthvaultinternationaloverviewjun2009-090618110437-phpapp02&stripped_title=microsoft-health-vault" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <div style="font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 2px">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" style="text-decoration: underline">Microsoft Word documents</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/innerear" style="text-decoration: underline">innerear</a>.</div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/innerear/microsoft-health-vault">http://www.slideshare.net/innerear/microsoft-health-vault</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/05/deep-dive-into-microsoft-life-sciences.html"><font size="1">A Deep Dive into Microsoft Life Sciences Today and in the Future – Interview with Michael Naimoli</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/03/electronic-health-records-not-enough.html"><font size="1">Electronic Health Records Not Enough – Aggregation and Better Interfaces Needed</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/03/genomics-and-silverlight-from-microsoft.html">Genomics and Silverlight from Microsoft working together for Great Visual Enhancement– BioMashUps</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html">EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-technology-centers-software.html">Microsoft Technology Centers – Software Solutions with Assistance and Guidance</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html">Common User Interface – Update and walk through video</a></h6> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ccc37868-9712-4f44-bfbb-b57f4f078971" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Healthvault" rel="tag">Healthvault</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Common+User+Interface" rel="tag">Common User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/silverlight" rel="tag">silverlight</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Life+Sciences" rel="tag">Life Sciences</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/UK" rel="tag">UK</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EMR" rel="tag">EMR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PHR" rel="tag">PHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/interoperability" rel="tag">interoperability</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/hospitals" rel="tag">hospitals</a></div>

Microsoft HealthVault and Common User Interface Presentation from the UK - Slideshow

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Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress

<p> Recently I posted about the <strong>Common User Interface from Microsoft</strong> and I spoke with a developer in <strong>New Zealand, Synapse,</strong> who has done some integration work with the interface.  Graham Chiu of Synapse, is a physician as well as a developer so  he is one busy person and nice to see a physician to be able to find the time for software development.  Below I have screenshots of both the <a href="http://synapsedirect.com/products/default.aspx">Synapse dashboard</a> and the Common User Interface to show how it looks in Synapse by comparison.<a href="http://synapsedirect.com/products/default.aspx"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="53" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuWzBAqFWI/AAAAAAAAJXo/1XsS4x_eRfU/image%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" title="image" width="104" /></a> </p> <p>The <strong><a href="http://synapsedirect.com/products/default.aspx">Synapse program</a></strong> used the same small blocks to change from one screen to another, just as the Common User Interface uses, thus it made it easy to navigate.  It is not an exact replication and is <u>work in progress</u> with the dashboard, and a little difference in color schemes, but you will be able to see the resemblance, so it made it very simple to use with the scheduler looking the same and the screens for reviewing patient data.  </p> <p>What I did was download the Synapse Express program and compared both side by side.  Synapse does not have any Silverlight elements included and is written in <a href="http://www.rebol.com/">Rebol Web 3.0</a> and he was able to make modifications to incorporate the dashboard, so this can be done even with software that is open source and works well with the free <a href="http://www.mscui.net/ControlsAndSamples.aspx">Code Plex toolkit provided by Microsoft.</a>  Perhaps we will be seeing more in this area soon from other electronic medical records software companies.  It certainly made it simple to have the same dashboard controls in the same areas with the same/similar graphics interface and controls.  BD    </p> <p> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-outlines-future-of-computing.html"></a></p> Appointment Scheduler</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW1HITJCI/AAAAAAAAJXs/uk-vnJbt8MA/s1600-h/image22.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="238" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW2zptyCI/AAAAAAAAJXw/ANz4Ax17ngw/image_thumb12.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="394" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW6R6yyLI/AAAAAAAAJX0/ovsGg9U1dqk/s1600-h/image9.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="217" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW8CfhrdI/AAAAAAAAJX4/HkLRVrmnr_k/image_thumb5.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="388" /></a> </p> <p>Appointments Detailed </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW-EJOdhI/AAAAAAAAJX8/b3beO2Z1fSs/s1600-h/image43.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="231" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW_YmGy1I/AAAAAAAAJYA/weaV1If_w78/image_thumb23.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="388" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXBuYQ-tI/AAAAAAAAJYE/PyXXcCpgN_A/s1600-h/image47.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="218" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXDF7GvBI/AAAAAAAAJYI/CXzmST6gAKo/image_thumb25.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="387" /></a> </p> <p>Consultations</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXEwOnonI/AAAAAAAAJYM/6uI7rUEvgYk/s1600-h/image13.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="223" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXGLhup0I/AAAAAAAAJYQ/61CvczGdjKk/image_thumb7.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="382" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXIzd9MRI/AAAAAAAAJYU/VmOZMfsng5E/s1600-h/image18.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXKq6KdrI/AAAAAAAAJYY/CUjz229K-l4/image_thumb10.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="390" /></a> </p> <p>Consultations Previewed </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXMQOF0aI/AAAAAAAAJYc/9ykbkVvTGo4/s1600-h/image26.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="230" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXNjOCgLI/AAAAAAAAJYg/LE9d7wQkIOo/image_thumb14.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="388" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXQcWGZfI/AAAAAAAAJYk/UwjbrLC7v80/s1600-h/image30.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="230" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXSAufC9I/AAAAAAAAJYo/P7wKCqURmu0/image_thumb16.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="392" /></a> </p> <p>Web links – news and events – reading material</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXUTnt4mI/AAAAAAAAJYs/FNmSVcqldu4/s1600-h/image51.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="234" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXVy0UTaI/AAAAAAAAJYw/LGnk7EO4-Yw/image_thumb27.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="388" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXYet9SNI/AAAAAAAAJY0/AylenhWJLjA/s1600-h/image55.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="232" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXZp6wpII/AAAAAAAAJY4/gQ1AlxAi0tA/image_thumb29.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="389" /></a> </p> <p>Practice NoticeBoard</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXbb5Q3AI/AAAAAAAAJY8/IjoGM6NDmMc/s1600-h/image59.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="234" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXcnNYoXI/AAAAAAAAJZA/3GU4oim7ync/image_thumb31.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="388" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXegm2-FI/AAAAAAAAJZE/El6BbGrfyeo/s1600-h/image63.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="222" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuXf_aE5MI/AAAAAAAAJZI/Ha-MzuUYrGQ/image_thumb33.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="391" /></a></p> <p><strong>Related Posts:</strong> </p> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/ehr-adoption-remains-off-in-distance.html"></a></p> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/ehr-adoption-remains-off-in-distance.html">EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated</a></p> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-common-user-interface-for.html">Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications- Silverlight...and Windows Presentation Foundation</a></p> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-outlines-future-of-computing.html">Microsoft outlines the future of computing – MIT Emerging Technology</a></p> <div class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8c34f41c-1b96-4484-b3b3-c218382f31f3" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Records" rel="tag">Medical Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Common+User+Interface" rel="tag">Common User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Synapse" rel="tag">Synapse</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EMR" rel="tag">EMR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/User+Interface" rel="tag">User Interface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Software" rel="tag">Medical Software</a></div>

Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress

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Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications- Silverlight...and Windows Presentation Foundation

<p>This is good....be sure you have Silverlight and visit the <strong><a href="http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/">"Patient Journey Demonstrator"</a></strong> to interact and see how the User Interface works...Dr. Crounse speaks to the NHS and talks about the unity needed for physicians to be able to use the same interface for entering patient information.  <a href="http://www.on10.net/link/dbb9d787-23c0-49be-b9de-d74f4147bf27/">Watch the video here...</a>for more information from the tech folks working with the NHS.  <a href="javascript: launchDemonstrator('PrimaryCare.aspx');"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="144" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrV2UInmI/AAAAAAAAGpo/VTNF1HPtaAQ/image23.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" width="179"></a> </p> <p><strong>The Common User Interface site can be </strong><a href="http://www.mscui.net/ControlsAndSamples.aspx"><strong>found here.</strong></a>  Controls and samples can be downloaded via the<strong> </strong><strong>CodePlex</strong> Library for developers.   </p> <p><em>"This is the <strong>1.3 release</strong> of the Microsoft® Health Common User Interface Toolkit. The scope and <a href="javascript: launchDemonstrator('SecondaryCare.aspx');"><strong><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="145" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrW2UInnI/AAAAAAAAGpw/69_cKKhEsWQ/image22.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" width="181"></strong></a>requirements of this release are based on materials <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrXmUInoI/AAAAAAAAGp4/YRjV3JFjxQA/s1600-h/image13.png"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="57" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrYmUInpI/AAAAAAAAGqA/e2Zfau-nbuk/image_thumb7.png?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" width="161"></a>produced from extensive consultation with patient safety experts, clinicians, user interface designers and  application developers. This <strong><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/mscui/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13203">release includes a new control</a></strong> in Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft® Silverlight™ "  </em></p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:b1d87d77-9c37-4560-ad43-391052f2282b" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: right; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 259px; padding-top: 0px"><div><object height="216" width="259"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eJALVQo-HyM&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eJALVQo-HyM&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="259" height="216"></embed></object></div></div> <p><strong>Discussion Panels and feedback can be found <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ProjectName=mscui&ThreadId=26807">here....</a></strong></p> <p><strong>There are several <a href="http://www.mscui.net/ControlsAndSamples.aspx">controls available</a> for Visual Studio for developers...both in PPF and Silverlight.... </strong></p> <blockquote> <p><em>"MSCUI 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.  The newest release of this work, V1.3, 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."<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrbmUInqI/AAAAAAAAGqI/wodgAouJZbE/s1600-h/image14%5B3%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="202" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrc2UInrI/AAAAAAAAGqQ/3NQL2qY2eZM/image14_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" width="309"></a></em></p> <p><strong>The <a href="http://www.mscui.net/Roadmap/Schedule.aspx">Roadmap Schedule is here</a> and is also formatted in Silverlight...</strong></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2008/05/12/microsoft-common-user-interface-for-health-applications-take-1-3.aspx">HealthBlog : Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications--Take 1.3</a> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:15d4ab69-d9aa-4290-9165-69a68065d130" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EMR" rel="tag">EMR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Silverlight" rel="tag">Silverlight</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/WFP" rel="tag">WFP</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical%20Records" rel="tag">Medical Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical%20IT" rel="tag">Medical IT</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Technology" rel="tag">Technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Physicians" rel="tag">Physicians</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Patient%20care" rel="tag">Patient care</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Patient%20Safety" rel="tag">Patient Safety</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft%20Healthcare" rel="tag">Microsoft Healthcare</a></div>

Microsoft Common User Interface for Health Applications- Silverlight...and Windows Presentation Foundation

This is good....be sure you have Silverlight and visit the "Patient Journey Demonstrator" to interact and see how the User Interf...

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EHR Vendors to Focus on Usability? What a Surprise, Many Systems Have Done This For Years, EHR Systems Owned By Insurers Though Might Be Subject to Different Flavors and Goals

<p>I go back to the pre ONC days when I was developing.  <strong>Did I focus on usability, you bet I did.  In those days everything had not yet <img align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrW2UInnI/AAAAAAAAGpw/69_cKKhEsWQ/image22.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: right" />moved to the web but your number one client is the user, the doctor.  With integration I can see how some of this was los in the translation</strong> and there have been numerous articles on the web on how this was lost beside me talking about it.  I really liked the idea of the Common User Interface, so when you talk about the #1 client, is it not  a good idea to have the same or similar interface so doctors can feel at ease and immediately recognize work flows screens anywhere they go?  <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" /></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html"><font size="2">EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed</font></a></h4> <p> <br clear="all" />Of course it was a good idea and I even consumer/patients I chatted with on Twitter say the same thing, so I pointed them to the “lost” project of the Common User Interface that hardly anyone outside the NHS and a couple other small developers used.   NHS had a lot of good developers in there and it was all open source..tada!  <img align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrc2UInrI/AAAAAAAAGqQ/3NQL2qY2eZM/image14_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: right" />It <strong>was kind of funny though when I pointed the patient/consumers over to this site as they scratched their heads too as here they got to see “their” idea too, just sitting there so they too recognized we had a little shortage in the collaboration department.  </strong>I ran around HIMSS in 2008 with the demo on a tablet and it was funny as all the EHR vendors were asking me “who’s system is that”, of course nobody wanting to be missing anything there with a potential new system, was funny:)  So when it come to safely on medical records, most vendor have done their homework as far as design, etc.  Again the only ones who may have lost some focus here as I see it are the ones owned by insurance companies as money and algorithms for profit is what drives their business.  <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" /></p> <h5><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2012/12/government-urges-software-companies-to.html">Government Urges Software Companies to Find and Document Patient Harm Resulting From Electronic Medical Records–Checking Algorithms & Hey, Whatever Happened to the Common User Interface?</a></h5> <p> <br clear="all" /><strong>I posted this back in 2008 about a doctor/developer I knew in New Zealand and his work.  He emulated it and didn’t use the Code-Plex language either,</strong> so how hard was that?  Personally I think all the safety talk is being way overdone and again most EHR companies that I have seen owned by doctors never lost the focus of the doctor being the #1 client.  Come on folks these are just the screens that run the processes which now are at the back end a change from when I wrote and had to put embedded code in the forms, easier now.  <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" /></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html"><font size="2">Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress</font></a></h4> <p> <br clear="all" />Electronic health records (EHRs) have to be usable and useful by physicians and integrate with hospitals’ or practices’ other systems to benefit providers or else the money spent on them is just wasted.<strong>  I feel I have to rub a little salt here and gee look at how the Common User Interface even works with HealthVault, the PHR, but very few listened.</strong>  Sure I’m giving Microsoft credit here as it should be as they had this one right.  <strong>Let’s dig this presentation out of the coffers here and see where this was in 2009</strong>, ahead of it’s time.  I am making a point here that those companies without ties to payers have long had this interest and projects out there, just nobody listened.  The presentation below was done in the UK and discusses both platforms.  <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" /></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/06/microsoft-healthvault-and-common-user.html"><font size="2">Microsoft HealthVault and Common User Interface Presentation from the UK - Slideshow</font></a></h4> <p> <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" /></p> <iframe style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid" height="356" marginheight="0" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/1603981" frameborder="0" width="427" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom: 5px"><strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/innerear/microsoft-health-vault" target="_blank" title="Microsoft Health Vault">Microsoft Health Vault</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/innerear" target="_blank">Inner Ear</a></strong> </div> <p> <br clear="all" />So at this point maybe we should be saying “gee I could have had a V8” if you remember that old television commercial. <strong> Sure it had Silverlight but you replace it with HTML5 and off you go and write some new code and change out modules.</strong>  See even I could do a demonstration easily enough, from the 2008 archives again so keep in mind this was almost 5 years ago.  <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" /><iframe style="width: 421px; height: 264px" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eJALVQo-HyM" frameborder="0" width="420" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" />So there’s my rant today on wasted efforts that could have made a difference from years ago and it’s funny we are somewhat back on the very same idea today when talking the National Institute of Technology with framework, duh?  Maybe money and greed won’t take over this time.  BD <hr /> <br clear="all" />EHRs were widely adopted, there wasn’t a demand for usability, according to David Blumenthal, MD, former national health IT coordinator and current president and CEO of The Commonwealth Fund. <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" />The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a framework to think about the use of EHRs in relation to adverse events and patient safety. Lana Lowry, NIST project lead on usability and human factors for health IT, believes that in addition to a set of technical requirements for functionality, systems need to have the same set of user requirements for how a user performs with the system. <br clear="all" /> <br clear="all" /><a href="http://www.govhealthit.com/news/ehr-vendors-focusing-usability">http://www.govhealthit.com/news/ehr-vendors-focusing-usability</a></p>

EHR Vendors to Focus on Usability? What a Surprise, Many Systems Have Done This For Years, EHR Systems Owned By Insurers Though Might Be Subject to Different Flavors and Goals

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President-Elect Urges Electronic Medical Records – comments by Dr. Bill Crounse of Microsoft

<p> This is a great article and good comments from <strong><u>Dr. Bill Crounse at Microsoft. from ABC News.</u></strong>  <strong> If you read this blog often enough, you will find several posts relating back to his blog, as his posts are informative and he works hard at keeping interested readers up to date</strong>, not only here in the US, but he also shares <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/default.aspx"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="106" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SWe3ueyeCMI/AAAAAAAAN0s/RwoUqqsLGOk/image%5B17%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="103" /></a>information from his travels and speaking engagements on what is happening outside the US.   </p> <p><strong><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/default.aspx">You can find his blog here,</a></strong> or under my Blog Roll Section on the page, and here’s <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2009/01/09/electronic-medical-records-just-part-of-needed-transformation.aspx">a link to his post for today.</a>  </p> <p>  <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2009/01/09/electronic-medical-records-just-part-of-needed-transformation.aspx"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="263" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SWe3wr_JFmI/AAAAAAAAN0w/eLcs5SAQKhA/image%5B11%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="366" /></a></p> <p><strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/himms-informative-and-influential.html">Last year I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Crounse at HIMMS</a></strong> and we covered a lot of topics, and one thing of course we both have in common is that we are both avid Tablet PC fans, you will see quite a few posts on his blog relative to Tablets as well.  At HIMMS there were a lot of<strong> tablet pcs</strong> being shown in various booths, but I used my unit to work the show, in other words with every booth I visited, I had a business intelligence file already set up in <strong>One Note</strong> so I could take notes in real time with all I visited with, <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/sahara-slate-tablet-pc-i440d-from.html">Tablet PC, a</a></strong> great tool for working conventions. I was impressed as Dr. Crounse knew me as the “Medical Quack”, one huge compliment for me in knowing where this blog reaches at times. </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/himms-2008-summary-getting-organized-is.html"><font size="1"><strong>HIMMS 2008 Summary - Getting organized is the trick</strong></font></a></h4> <p>While at the show (with my tablet pc) I had an <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/electronic-medical-records-of-future.html">old demo version from Microsoft running on the tablet,</a></strong> and this was just before the public release on the Common User Interface project, and it drew a lot of attention.  I still keep seeing this YouTube video I made still popping up occasionally on websites today.  <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/tabletkiosk-i440d-sahara-tablet-video.html">I even got a little carried away</a></strong> with doing a speech recognition demo on the floor, which of course was not perfect, but rather just showing another way of interacting with a computer for input of medical records.  </p> <p>Back to the discussion at hand with medical records, one other thoughts that I have too on the subject is that it is a very complicated situation today.  As software algorithms continue to grow in complexity, so does the software, and that is everywhere we turn today.  This is rapidly presenting a need for standards and simplicity of use for the healthcare industry.  <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="53" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SWe3xIi1ZNI/AAAAAAAAN00/aS6TYSm42is/image%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="163" /></a> </p> <p>Cost of course is a big ticket today with the state of our economy and something that can’t be overlooked, but where<strong> software developers can join force is to create a simpler, yet dynamic method for clinicians to use.</strong>  <strong><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/">Code Plex is a portion of Microsoft that is free and donated open source code</a></strong> available to any developer to work with and within Code Plex there is what is called <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html">“A Common User Interface”</a> that any software company can download and develop. </p> <p><strong>So what is so important about standards and a common user interface – let me put this bluntly, it’s called ease of use and functionality.</strong>  Let’s take Dr. Smith who is on staff at 3 hospitals, each of them using a different medical records software system. <strong>Did I get your attention yet?</strong></p> <p>Well as we all complain about healthcare being so slow to adapt medical records, this one scores one big negativity factor for the doctors, does this doctor, who’s primary job is to take care of us, <strong>need to learn 3 different software systems,</strong> and how about the time it takes him.  Ok, we all go through software updates everywhere we go today, but keep in mind all the information about each patient that is flowing today to a physician.  <strong>It’s an administrative nightmare for the physician, no matter how you look at it and it’s no wonder the frustration and non-participation levels are high, put yourself in those shoes.</strong>   I have done my own little survey in asking doctors how they would feel if the screens and data entry were all the same at any hospital they happen to be on staff at or have a working relationship,<strong> do you think any of them said “no” I wouldn’t like that, of course not.</strong>  <u> I think one would have to be a bit crazy to say I like having 3 different input screens to learn, agree? </u></p> <p>So what we are talking about here is not only medical records, but a system that can work and have a familiar face at any facility.  The <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html">Common User Interface</a>,</strong> as being developed by the NHS is something that should not be overlooked as much of the work is already done!  Do we really need to re-invent the wheel?   It does make me somewhat wonder if software developers are trying to do just that when reading articles such as this one, wondering what is going on here, are they trying to start from scratch?  </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ge-mayo-clinic-others-to-develop-health.html"><font size="1">GE, Mayo Clinic, others to develop health record technology</font></a></h4> <p>I have a multitude of articles on the blog discussing the <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html">Common User Interface,</a></strong> again free for taking and developing to perhaps one day bring the same dynamic data entry screens and processes to every hospital and physician’s office across the US.  Years ago I wrote a very simple EMR before the complexities of today and have followed the progress and am an active contributor and moderator on <strong><a href="http://www.emrupdate.com/forums/">EMR Update, a</a></strong> site discussing electronic medical records.  The physicians at <strong><a href="http://www.emrupdate.com/forums/">EMR Update</a></strong> came to know me around there a few years ago and we have a great exchange of technical and clinical information where input from both sides can lead to solutions and you will also find this blog syndicated there as well.  </p> <p><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html"><img align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOuW8CfhrdI/AAAAAAAAJX4/HkLRVrmnr_k/image_thumb5.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" /></a></p> <p><strong>Dr. Crounse on his blog also has a nice <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2008/09/26/test-drive-a-more-standardized-contemporary-and-intuitive-user-experience-for-clinical-systems.aspx">informative post about the Common User Interface with</a> links to the MSDN technical pages.</strong>  When you stop and think about it, the interface makes sense and I wonder where the delay is myself with developers who might not be taking a serious look at coming together to make the process easier, you have to think of the end user today with simplified software screens, otherwise it’s just another overloaded software system.<strong> Me, being a consultant too, just from my tiny corner of the word, how many software systems do I have to learn to be able to give support?  I feel the same as the doctors on this one.  (grin).</strong></p> <p>It just makes one wonder why perhaps we might not be a little more united in this effort to create a product that would have simplicity, dynamics, and something that would only require training on one interface, as the back end software could still function and query as usual.  The related reading below references many of my past posts on the subject and <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html">even one on a small developer in New Zealand who doesn’t even write code with a Microsoft product, but is making use of the interface</a> with his project.  </p> <p>In short, when it comes down to a system that will work, why don’t we all get together and take advantage of some valuable resources that are here today, built for the future and make it easier for the healthcare individuals we rely on to guide us to better healthcare?  </p> <p><em><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-technology-centers-software.html"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="122" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SN7Gd9_ZgYI/AAAAAAAAJKc/c2IvPxP1Aw8/image_thumb%5B19%5D.png?imgmax=800" title="image" width="244" /></a></em></p> <p>In a related technology story, <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/vanderbilt-university-medical-center.html">I found my post on Vanderbilt’s internal website,</a> relating back to another solution for the <strong>instant detection of Sepsis,</strong> using Microsoft technology and the University is ready and willing to share with all. <strong><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2008/04/02/patient-safety-screening-tool-for-sepsis-new-video.aspx">Dr, Crounse also has an in depth post on his blog that can be found here.</a></strong>  </p> <p>I also had a chance to talk with <strong>Hemang Patel from Microsoft’s mobility area of healthcare at HIMMS.</strong> You can view a <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2008/04/11/mobile-devices-and-solutions-for-healthcare.aspx">couple videos here</a> on Dr. Crouse's blog that have been posted in the past about healthcare as related to cell phone platforms.  </p> <p>One more item worth mentioning too is the availability of <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-technology-centers-software.html">Microsoft Technical Centers,</a></strong> 16 locations where you can get free architecture help and get software up and running much faster.  Facilities as such might be able to help with programming of the <strong>Common User Interface</strong> too.  I have been to the facility in Irvine, and the link above mentions many of the local Irvine employees of Microsoft that I have the opportunity to learn from and interact with.  You get to see some very exciting technology too, see the link below about <strong>Microsoft Surface.</strong> </p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/hospital-operator-demos-health-care.html"><font size="1">Hospital Operator Demos Health Care Application For Microsoft Surface</font></a></h4> <p>And more item worth a short note, <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/protein-folding-on-microsoft-surface.html">I was able to fold DNA protein on Surface</a></strong> while there one day for a meeting.  I mentioned this with my interview this week with <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/rosetta-genomics-interview-microrna-for.html">Rosetta Genomics</a> and he was very interested as well in how this could be done, as they work with microRNAs.  </p> <p>Long and short of all of this is that hopefully the Obama team will investigate and maybe find that most of the answers being sought out for solutions are already here, they just need to be instituted with a CTO that can get the job done for us and last but not least, we do have a couple good personal health records solutions that are there and available for consumers today.  My blog has many posts over the last year as well as permanent links for anyone to get started.  </p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=health&nui=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhealth%2Fp%2F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhealth%2Fp%2F&rm=hide"><img height="38" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SGRPjPR9NVI/AAAAAAAAH30/dA55nv_qrf4/googlehealth%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="95" /></a> <a href="http://www.healthvault.com/"><img height="40" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SM3q6TdZm-I/AAAAAAAAI90/u04OgRqDvPI/image%5B14%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="96" /></a></p> <p>The solutions are there for integration and technology today, standards and perhaps<u> unifying our efforts to become less fractured</u> will be the answer and again, I hope the Obama team is doing their homework here, and in time we will have a better idea of the direction we are heading without having to take time to re-invent the wheel.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p><em>In the latest step toward the computerization of Americans' medical information, President-elect Barack Obama said in a speech Thursday that the government will push for electronic health records for all Americans within five years in order to save both dollars and lives.<img align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SCmrYmUInpI/AAAAAAAAGqA/e2Zfau-nbuk/image_thumb7.png?imgmax=800" /></em></p> <p><strong><em>Dr. Bill Crounse, senior director of worldwide health for the Microsoft Corporation, said that he is "thrilled that President-elect Barack Obama is stepping forward to carry the torch" with regard to the development of electronic medical records for all Americans. </em></strong></p> <p><em><strong>"The opportunity here is so much bigger than just electronic medical records," he said. "The opportunity is really to think in entirely new ways about how you do health care."</strong> </em></p> <p><em>Microsoft could well be one of the major players in the eventual development of such a system. The company launched a beta program of</em></p> <p><em>an online medical records program called Healthvault in 2007. The company now has partnered with Kaiser, the American Heart Association, the Cleveland Clinic and others in creating a user-accessible program and laying an infrastructure for others to build upon.</em></p> <p><em><strong>Crounse said that it is little surprise that few doctors -- particularly primary care doctors -- are stepping forward to invest what he says could be $25,000 in a system for electronic medical records.</strong> </em></p> <p><strong><em>"We're asking them to step up and spend a lot of money on electronic medical records. The doctors will say that a lot of the benefits of these systems accrue to everyone but the doctor." </em></strong></p> <p><em><strong>While he said that the benefits for doctors are there -- primarily in the form of improved patient safety and care -- this perception could give many doctors pause.</strong> </em></p> <p><strong><em>Ideally, Crounse and Robb both noted, these records would let patients manage their medical particulars in much the same way as they manage their financial matters online.</em></strong></p> <p><em>And Webb added that considering the current state of the country's health-care system, the time is ripe for change -- <strong>and government finds toward this effort would be money well spent.</strong></em></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/President44/story?id=6606536&page=1">ABC News: President-Elect Urges Electronic Medical Records in 5 Years</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/himms-informative-and-influential.html">HIMMS - Informative and Influential People</a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/lawmakers-consider-adding-health-it-to.html"><font size="1">Lawmakers Consider Adding Health IT to Stimulus Package – We Need some Congressional Algorithms</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-federal-study-shows-barriers-to.html">New federal study shows barriers to healthcare IT - All over the place</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/bill-gates-testifies-before-congress.html">Bill Gates Testifies before Congress - more technology education needed before the US falls behind....</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-electronic-records-reach-your.html">How electronic records reach your doctor – Integrated through the Hospitals</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/ehr-adoption-remains-off-in-distance.html">EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/clinical-trials-in-us-begin-involving.html">Clinical Trials in the US – Begin involving the physicians and patients at the point of care to achieve greater success and participation with Personal Health Records</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-technology-centers-software.html">Microsoft Technology Centers – Software Solutions with Assistance and Guidance</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/common-user-interface-update-and-walk.html">Common User Interface – Update and walk through video</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/07/healthcare-leaders-favor-personal.html">Healthcare leaders favor personal networks (Personal Health Records) to RHIOs for data exchange</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/social-security-likes-phrs-too-wanting.html">Social Security likes PHRs too – wanting to work with EMR and PHR software with pilot program</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/computer-technology-can-cut-into.html"><font size="1">Computer technology can cut into personalized patient care with complexity and complicated user interfaces</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/personalized-medicine-will-rely-on-it.html"><font size="1">Personalized medicine will rely on IT – It’s all about Software</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/scripps-navigenics-affymetrix-and.html">Scripps, Navigenics, Affymetrix and Microsoft team on groundbreaking health study – Personalized Medicine</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehrs-need-standard-templates-so-lets.html"><font size="1">EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/common-user-interface-ehr-development.html"><font size="1">Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/selling-bitter-emr-pill-himss-meeting.html"><font size="1">Selling the bitter EMR pill (HIMSS meeting) ...IT and IS, CIOs and CEOs...Quit Chopping Trees to find the answer...</font></a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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President-Elect Urges Electronic Medical Records – comments by Dr. Bill Crounse of Microsoft

This is a great article and good comments from Dr. Bill Crounse at Microsoft. from ABC News.   If you read this blog often enough, you wil...

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