Awesome concept user interface from Microsoft...

Wow! I was blown away when I came across this site and saw the concept EMR interface.

http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/

 

You have to let your system install Silverlight to see these demos, which I did, and you are correct, scslmd, it is well-worth the brief and painless download of MS Siverlight in order to see these EMR "models". Very interesting, good post.

Hello There,

I'm impressed by the CUI by MS. I hope they can implement this in their new launched EMR SW. Anyone know when they are launching their new product and how much it costs?

 

Cheers for the link

 

tim 

This has a roadmap to be in place by November with the NHS in the UK so we can maybe get a full report from Nick when he visits the doctor later this year if his physican is on board.   I'm sure many EMR companies here are also gearing up for a similar type of interface for the future.  Silverlight 2 is in beta 2 right now, to be released sometime this summer, but folks aren't waiting around like at Vanderbilt University to develop.  Here's a few links that will give some additional information I wrote up on the blog.  There is also Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight being developed with Microsoft providing the code to the open community. 

 ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-common-user-interface-for.html

 ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/04/silverlight-for-electronic-medical.html

 http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/vanderbilt-university-medical-center.html

 ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-intros-touchwall-useful-for.html

Pretty interface. Silverlight is very similar to Adobes Flex, which is a more mature product that has been around longer. I like the look of these type of apps, and think they have the potential to be used for a decent EMR GUI. This type of stuff is really starting to blur the line between web based and desktop apps in functionality also. With Adobes Air (formerly Apollo) allowing a developer to bring web based apps to the desktop across all operating systems I think there is a lot of potential. However "potential" is the key word here. I'd love to see how a doctor would actually enter an office visit. How would data entry at the point of care work? A pretty interface with cool drag and drop features is one thing, but functionality, efficiency, and ease of use are a completely different story. The EMR community in general, and MS specifically, are famous for overpromising and underdelivering. I guess we'll have to wait and see how this plays out.

 If you look at the actual example encounters, you'll see the typical succinct clinical notes you see everywhere outside of the USA.  None of this 3 page ROS crap.

 

We have spent the last 2 years writing code in WPF and Silverlight.  It is still a little immature as a technology, but holds much promise.  It is not a RAD panacea however, and still requires a fairly large client side foot print.

I guess we'll have to wait and see how this plays out.

Being this is to be rolled out to the NHS, we'll have to send our investigative report Nick out to visit the doctor when it is up and running  

There is quite a bit of work to writing code for this, not to mention the testing portions and having to find programmers who can do it too.  Silverlight does rely on the dot net framework, so there is a bit of software that goes to the local pc, code has to be  somewhere.  

Silverlight 2, Beta 2 is where we are at now, advanced from Sivlerlight 2 beta 1, even I get confused here with the various versions.  Beta 2 though is a pretty big milestone from the prior release with support for C#, Rails, etc. as well as dot net of course.  What is nice though is that it can be modular as well, so if you have an active server program, you can add some Silverlight Modules, thus you may not have to start from scratch and do the entire user interface, and this may prove to be a big timesaver and help to developers wtih perhaps doing a portion at a time.  

LINQ is the new language Microsoft created to link the Silverlight front end to SQL server.  You can still use existing technologies along with LINQ.   For anyone who writes code with Visual Studio, another time saver is "intellisense" which has been added, and in layman's terms, this saves a lot of typing and anticipates the options for the programmer.

 

scslmd:

Wow! I was blown away

http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/

I installed Silverlight on one computer (that I am going to re-image anyway).  Did this demo.

The GUI is OK.  I'm not getting the "Blown Away" feeling.  Can someone point out what is supposed to WOW me ?  I like cheap thrills. 

Nice demo.  This certainly is an attractive and intuitive GUI.  It does seem to be lacking in terms of the amount of data one can fit on the screen.  And, functionality, of course, is an entirely separate issue.

If we could blend this type of interface with Dr. Winn's (e-MD's) functionality, limit the amount clicking and jumping back and forth between screens, do a better job of codifyng data, and maybe top it off with a few extra bells and whistles - then we might really have something.