# use case documents from the health care domain **Category:** [Technical (archive)](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/technical-archive/156) **Created:** 2003-11-06 09:32 UTC **Views:** 4 **Replies:** 4 **URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/use-case-documents-from-the-health-care-domain/14454 --- ## Post #1 by @Arild_Faxvaag Dear all\. Has someone tried to establish a collection of use case documents with descriptions of information\-related tasks by health care workers? Would you developers consider it useful if such a collection existed? kindly regards --- ## Post #2 by @christian.heller Arild, > Has someone tried to establish a collection of use case documents with > descriptions of information\-related tasks by health care workers? > > Would you developers consider it useful if such a collection existed? yes, we have tried to establish a "Requirements Analysis Document": http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net/analysis/index.html Up to now, it is German\-only and I am still trying to find somebody willing to translate to English and maintain the document a bit\. Currently, there is the possibility to get a student for that\. Let's see\. There are other documents such as those from GNUmed or the good old "Quick Quack" which may be of interest to you\. We would be happy if you could contribute a number of Use Cases \(UML or just textual\), be it in a number of new documents or added to ours\. Rgds, Christian --- ## Post #3 by @lakewood Hi Arild, YES\! The reason is threefold: 1\)Interoperability design/development/test/operations tasks will require that there be an information source available and accessible that can be used in evaluation/performance efforts directed at related products, e\.g\., measurement and analysis of successive tests on datasets\. 2\)Information evaluation/analysis of the "use case documents" to establish/evaluate methods, procedures, filtering and priorities used to generate the documents\. 3\)Architecting/design/development of new/extended datasets that cover issues from information coverage \(what to leave in \- what to leave out\) to security/confidentiality \(what portions are viewable by whom\)\. "information\-related tasks by health care workers" incorporate many issues/decisions/policies resolved by the related Healthcare Community\. Always nice to have that information available as well since the ultimate goal is to produce a product to be used by that Community\. The only issue I see is How should this information be made available\. Regards\!\! \-Thomas Clark Arild Faxvaag wrote: --- ## Post #4 by @thomas.beale openEHR is creating a requirements project to hodl requirements information\. There are two kinds of requirements \- one is functional/architectural, and a lot of work has been done on this topic over the last 10\-15 years\. So an initial piece of content will be published, based on Dipak Kalra's doctoral thesis work, which is a synthesis and update to work done in GEHR, Synapses, EHR\-SupA, openEHR, and takes into account Riche, nucleus and many other projects\. The second kind of requirement document we need is what Arild has mentioned \- scenarios of health tasks\. HL7 has done some work on this, and published some storyboards in their ballot for their standard\. I don't believe this IP will be directly available\. Many other people no doubt have material of this nature lying around which could be made into a repsitory of short scenarios which could be classified and managed in openEHR, but essentially created and maintained by the community\. I am willing to propose a template for such documents; is the community interested in contributing? If it was agreed to make the contributions copyright to The openEHR Foundation, it would protect the material being openly available to all \(whcih is what we do with the reference model documents for example\)\. I think this would be a nice project for the new year\. If we could dedicate a section of the website to this function, we can use forms to enable people to contribute scenarios, and a little bit of querying logic to search for existing scenarios\. thoughts? \- thomas beale Arild Faxvaag wrote --- ## Post #5 by @Butler_William_E_M.D Thomas, I am working on a surgical practice workflow automation project\. I came across openehr while working on this\. I would be interested in a family of use case scenarios\. Thanks, Bill Butler William E\. Butler, M\.D\. Neurosurgical Service Massachusetts General Hospital --- **Canonical:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/use-case-documents-from-the-health-care-domain/14454 **Original content:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/use-case-documents-from-the-health-care-domain/14454