NHS Guidance: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Information Architecture

By peter.stilgoe

This guidance helps healthcare organisations apply a chosen information architecture or taxonomy within a 2007 Office system environment. Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Information Architecture describes how to plan and design an information architecture and provides step-by-step instructions showing how to configure Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 with these settings.

This guidance is suitable for use by healthcare organisations that currently:

- Have content stored in local drives and file shares
- Archive records manually
- Have a basic Web server with Web master-controlled publishing
- Have not yet deployed Office SharePoint Server 2007, or have recently deployed Office SharePoint Server 2007 and wish to plan a portal structure and information architecture

Solution Accelerator – Scorecards

This solution accelerator acts as a template for configuring a management dashboard to track organisational metrics. It contains four example dashboards ranging from a primary care practice to a healthcare organisation’s CEO dashboard with metrics based on the healthcare targets for 2008. The solution accelerator also includes online guidance explaining how to customise a dashboard for a healthcare organisation’s needs.

This solution accelerator is suitable for use by healthcare organisations 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