Entries from December 2007 ↓

Very interestingly the Microsoft Common User Interface provides a set of ASP/WinForms controls which applications and user iterface designers can use to provide safe clinical applications! Its available as CodePlex Project!!! From my brief research i havent seen such a approach before other than the IBM CUA which was more about uniformity of user controls. I’m not sure that with the adoption of MVC model of web/app development the ASP/WinForms style controls will be more in demand in the future. Anyways one thing which sucks about it is that you can see what the controls are until you download the 13Megs of software, it would have been great to see some snapshots somewhere!!!

You can add the health vault search box to your site very easily.

To add the box -

1. Include the following in your head element -

   <script src="http://health.live.com/static/partner/Microsoft.HealthVault.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

2. Add the following to the div where you want the search box

   <script type="text/javascript">       new Microsoft.HealthVault.SearchBox(0,null);</script>

   The first element in the SearchBox describes the size of search box (1,2,3) and the second one will be a partner id for ad revenue sharing with the search box partners. If you want such an id for revenue share you will need to contact Microsoft.

3. For contextual pop-up use the above script and annotate your text as follows -
   Example -

   Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fusce <span onclick="myPopup.show(this)" class="msHealthVaultContextualPopup">cancer</span> nibh sed nisi. Quisque id sem. Cbulum facilisis iaculis quam. Nulla euismod porttitor risus. </p>
   
   <script type="text/javascript">var myPopup = new Microsoft.HealthVault.ContextualPopup(null);</script>

   Gives

   Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fusce cancer nibh sed nisi. Quisque id sem. Cbulum facilisis iaculis quam. Nulla euismod porttitor risus.

The healthcareitnews surveys gets for Health IT news makers ranks the newsmakers as:

1. Peter Neupert, HealthVault.com
2. Glen Tullman, AllScripts.com
3. Steve Case, RevolutionHealth.com

I wish there was a compete equivalent for ranking people, the story of compete in companies in above case is fairly insufficient. Better stills i think the nominations should be made for Webby Awards health category.

Bill Crounse (Worldwide Health Director for the Microsoft Corporation) has a nice and succint introduction to Microsoft Health vault here and relevant video discussion on10 .