What is Microsoft Health CUI?
To understand the reasoning behind Microsoft Health CUI, consideration needs to be given to clinical applications that are used within a healthcare setting, such as a doctor’s practice, ambulance, hospital, or in the community. Healthcare professionals utilize a variety of clinical applications developed by different application providers, who have their own approach to user interface design. This results in an inherent level of inconsistency between user interfaces that has the potential for risk to the patient. To take a simple example, consider how a patient’s name and date of birth could be displayed differently in three clinical applications. A healthcare professional might have difficulty identifying the same patient in each of these applications, and this could result in them administering the wrong care to that patient. This is where Microsoft Health CUI can help by promoting a Common User Interface (CUI) for clinical applications. Healthcare application developers can utilize
