What's a "Use Case"?

Greetings NI Community,


Please see the notice below on the final publication of the 2009
Detailed Clinical Research Use Case. If you are not familiar with this
document or context please read on:


Development of the Use Case - The Health IT Standards-Development
Process


The "Use Case" is an approach that has been adopted to help bring about
rapid progress in the adoption of health information technology,
especially in the development of technical and nomenclature standards. A
Use Case describes the real-world uses, pathways and stakeholders that a
given health IT application will need to serve. From this thorough
examination and analysis, standards can be developed to address each
step and need that the Use Case has identified.

In 2008, the American Health Information Community (AHIC), an advisory
committee to HHS, recommended that standards should be developed toward
the use of EHRs in clinical research, beginning with development of Use
Cases for various aspects of this challenge.

In cooperation with HHS, this project was undertaken by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI), with support from numerous other
organizations. A workgroup was formed and commenced the development of
Use Cases. The first of these Use Cases, now released, will be followed
by other Use Cases in the future. More information about the workgroup
is available at

http://www.ansi.org/news_publication...iclei=d=3D2107