Healthcare Information System Hospitals and other health care organizations have

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Healthcare Information System

Hospitals and other health care organizations have a large amount of valuable information about patients, their healthcare treatment history, and their current and past health status. You have been asked to design and build a system that helps to mine this data in several different ways. First, a research team of doctors, nurses, and other researchers need to be able to carry out experiments on new medications and innovative treatments for various diseases and conditions. One issue that they face is identifying a cohort of people who have particular characteristics on which to test these new medication or treatments. For example, they may have a new treatment for diabetes. They may want to have a cohort of patients who have a particular type of diabetes (e.g., type 1 or type 2). Furthermore, they may need this cohort to be in a particular age range, and to be free of coronary heart disease. Thus, these specifications for cohorts can be quite complex. They want an interface that is easy to use. There shall be both a web interface and an iPad interface to the system. Another use of this data mining is to track how doctors are performing for a particular hospital. That is, the hospital may want to know which doctors have patients for which their treatments are being successful. Or an insurance company may want to know which doctors are prescribing the most procedures for their patients. More importantly, they may want to track the number of procedures prescribed correlated with the effectiveness of those treatments. Another use of this data is to give a warning about patients who have had multiple types of treatments with the goal of making sure that various doctors are aware of what other physicians are doing for this patient.Thus, there are three types of ways of mining this data. One is to create cohorts of patients with particular characteristics. A second is explore the performance of a specific physician with respect to qualities like number of procedures prescribed, effectiveness of treatments, cost of treatments prescribed, etc. A third is to track the healthcare of a particular patient to assure that he or she is getting the best possible treatment.Privacy is a concern for this data. In all of these uses, there are HIPAA privacy requirements that require that a patient’s medical data is not disclosed without his/her permission.

A. Give three user stories from this scenario. Pick three that are the highest priority.

Use this format "As the assistant provost, I would like to store service requests, so that they are available in the future."

B. Give your personal analysis of the number of story points that you would ascribe to each of these stories. How many points and why?

Explanation / Answer

The 3 user stories of highest priority are:

1. Develop data mining techniques for 3 different type of usage

2. Develop used interfaces for Web and Ipad that allows users to give complex specifications

3. Develop secure storage and third party interface that comply with HIPAA specifications

Story points rate the relative effort of work in a Fibonacci-like format: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89,......

The story point for each of them are

1. Highly complex so giving 12 story points

2. Need efforts, but less complex, so giving 10 story points

3. Fairly complex and needs some effort, so giving 10 story points.

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