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The Common User Interface uses the dynamics of Silverlight, like you see on Netflix and on the Presidential Inauguration, for health care charting with the hope that someday interest will prevail here with vendors coming to some sort of unified interface so the screens are the same or similar for the clinical staff at every hospital or doctor's office.

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  1. noun A movable device, especially a framed construction such as a room divider or a decorative panel, designed to divide, conceal, or protect.
  2. noun One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide: Security guards formed a screen around the President. A screen of evergreens afforded privacy from our neighbors.
  3. noun A coarse sieve used for sifting out fine particles, as of sand, gravel, or coal.
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  • Most people didn't notice, but the screens were automatic in my office. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • Filling the screens was an immense sun, bright yellow and burning with all the fires of Hell itself, its surface spotted here and there with the tiny black smudges of solar storms. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • Displayed on the screens was a departure angle view. —  Asimov'sSF,February2008
  • I assume he's referring to the Apple model of touch using capacitive screens, which is newer, but so what? —  Mobility Site
  • We asked Intel if they forbid manufacturers to build Netbooks with larger than 10 inch screens, which is what those manufacturers are telling us (Dell notwithstanding). —  TechCrunch
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