Connected Health Platform Solution Accelerators
Health Solution Accelerators
TechNet Solution Accelerators
Patient safety is a critical issue for healthcare organizations worldwide. Through on-going collaboration with the National Health Service (NHS) in England and a growing worldwide community of healthcare organizations, Microsoft has released an updated version of the Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI). CUI promotes improved patient safety in clinical applications by providing user interface designers, application developers and patient safety experts with guidelines, controls and showcase demonstrators. Over 1100 individual guidelines have now been published and further guidance, controls will be released throughout 2008 and 2009. This new release of CUI utilises the latest Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight 2 technologies.
The efficient transfer of health information between and amongst healthcare providers is one of the greatest challenges the health sector faces. Healthcare provider information systems vary considerably in terms of modernity and sophistication, from paper-based systems to highly sophisticated web-based integrated information management tools. Information needs vary from practice to practice. The Health Connection Engine (HCE) facilitates the interoperability between these multiple systems by abstracting the interfaces used to connect them and by providing a rich and extensible adapter framework.
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing XDS.b is a Microsoft Health Information Network (HIN) Core IO solution accelerator based on the IHE (www.ihe.net) XDS.b integration profile. XDS.b facilitates the registration, distribution and access across health enterprises of patient electronic health records. It provides a standards-based interoperable approach for managing the sharing of documents between any healthcare enterprise, ranging from a private physician office to a clinic to an acute care facility. XDS.b improves patient safety and staff efficiency by allowing timely access to patient data at the point of care.
This solution accelerator provides on-demand collaborative workspaces, discussion forums and a people directory. Users can discover communities and user groups, create their own groups, and find people and experts to collaborate with, and ask questions of. The solution enabler includes online guidance explaining how to customize the solution to a healthcare organization's needs.
This solution accelerator is suitable for use by healthcare organizations that currently:
| • | Collaborate via file shares, public folders, FTP sites and email |
| • | Experience difficulties in finding experts, like-minded individuals or special interest groups |
| • | Experience difficulties in finding, managing and adapting information |
This solution accelerator provides a shared workspace where meeting attendees or committee members can share agendas, papers, presentations and actions. The solution enabler includes an example meeting workspace and online guidance explaining how to customize the solution to a healthcare organization's needs.
This solution accelerator is suitable for use by healthcare organizations that currently:
| • | Collaborate via email and phone |
| • | Stored content in local drives and file shares |
| • | Deliver paper 'meeting packs' to attendees |
| • | Do not have shared calendaring or task management |
| • | Experience difficulties in finding information about a meeting |
This solution accelerator acts as a template for configuring a management dashboard to track organizational metrics. It contains four example dashboards ranging from a primary care practice to a healthcare organization's CEO dashboard with metrics based on the healthcare targets for 2008. The solution enabler also includes online guidance explaining how to customize a dashboard for a healthcare organization's needs.
This solution accelerator is suitable for use by healthcare organizations that currently use:
| • | Static paper-based documents to track performance with manually-entered performance metrics |
| • | Static, decentralized, and highly-IT dependent reports |
| • | Standalone spreadsheet-based analysis |
The Policies and Procedures Solution Accelerator has been created to assist healthcare organizations who find it difficult to create, maintain, publish and easily access policy and guideline information. In the worst case, this can result in poor or dangerous patient treatment and can be expensive to maintain (multiple paper copies equals increased printing costs).
It is well-known within healthcare organizations that paper forms and the associated support processes are costly and inefficient to maintain. The Electronic Forms Resource Kit assists healthcare organizations by providing a User Information Web Service and a set of template parts, sample forms and supporting tools. Together they enable healthcare staff to create electronic forms that meet a range of common business needs within a healthcare organization.
This guidance assists healthcare organizations in creating a Template Gallery site either as part of an intranet portal, or as a standalone Web site. This site will enable users to centrally publish, discover, rate and request electronic assets such as document templates, Office Groove templates, electronic forms and spreadsheets.
