Understanding User Needs for Interoperability: Standards for Business Cases in eHealth

摘要

AHIMA, IN COLLABORATION with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International, has been publishing the findings of the Use Case Task Force in a series of articles in the Journal of AHIMA's Standards Strategies section. The first article in this series published in the Journal's June 2017 issue provided definitions for the concepts that define user needs for the adoption of health information technology (HIT) to support HIT systems interoperability and information sharing across systems. These concepts are business cases (breakthrough areas), use cases, realization scenarios, technical use cases, and storyboards. This article, the second in the series, presents the hierarchy between concepts, illustrates the hierarchy using the examples of assembling the artifacts in the domain of clinical imaging, and describes the approach and standards for building the business cases.