The purpose is to describe the use cases and workflow scenarios for sharing clinical documents across solutions. Each jurisdiction may have implementation variances within the use cases. Therefore, these use cases do not represent required implementation choices, nor are they representative of all possible implementation choices. These uses cases are to be considered as examples. The use cases provide high-level interactions between a Health Care Provider or Patient using a Clinical Solution (e.g., EMR, Patient Portal, etc.) and the HIE. Use cases provide the business description or "conversation" between the system(s) and its user(s), known as Participants. Participants can be people (e.g., health care providers, patients, etc.) using a Clinical Solution (e.g., EMR, Patient Portal) or systems (e.g., HIE, etc.). Please note that detailed interactions are defined in the CA:FeX Interoperability Specifications Sequence Diagrams section of this document.
Each use case will include:
- use case scenario,
- examples of use case triggers, pre- and post-conditions,
- who the participants are (i.e., people and systems),
- a use case diagram to provide a visual representation of the interactions between participants,
- use case steps corresponding to the diagram and potential alternate flows, and
- requirements.
Use Case Index
This section includes a proposed list of use cases which were identified as being priority use cases in the pan-Canadian environmental scan. Additional use cases will be defined in future releases.
The scope for this release of the CA:FeX Specifications has been defined to include the following use cases:
The list below includes the use cases a Use Case ID, name and description of the use case.
| Use Case ID | Use Case Name | Use Case Description |
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| UC-01 | Create and Submit Document | A Health Care Provider, in any care setting, adds Patient clinical documentation for use at point of care, which is made available to other authorized HCPs. |
| UC-02 | Query and Retrieve Document | Query and retrieval of clinical documentation performed by a Health Care Provider for use at the point of care or by the Patient themselves to obtain a copy of their own personal health information. |
| UC-03 | Create and Submit Data | A Health Care Provider, in any care setting, adds Patient clinical data for use at point of care, which is made available to other authorized HCPs. |
| UC-04 | Query and Retrieve Data | Query and retrieval of clinical data performed by a Health Care Provider for use at the point of care or by the Patient themselves to obtain a copy of their own personal health information. |
| UC-05 | Fetch Document References | Clinical solution fetches references to clinical documentation from a Clinical Data Repository for use at the point of care or by the Patient themselves to obtain a copy of their own personal health information. |
Requirement Priority Definitions
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