Page History

The purpose of this use case is to describe the activities involved in

recording an immunization

event.

Trigger: Immunization has been administered

• A healthcare provider

• administers a vaccine to a patient.
• She records the vaccination event in the local EMR System
• The EMR sends a request to add the immunization event details to the repository.
• The event is recorded in the repository and the message is acknowledged.

(The above flow represents a successful transaction, alternate flows exist.)

UC-2 Query an Immunization Repository

The purpose of this use case is to describe the activities involved in retrieving

a client’s immunization forecast

immunization records for a patient from a repository.

Trigger: Immunization information for a patient needs to be retrieved from an immunization repository

for an identified client

.

Trigger: A healthcare provider wishes to obtain patient-specific immunization forecast information.

• Nurse calls John Smith to let him know about the flu clinic next week and to advise him to attend for his flu shot.
• Nurse notices that John turned 65 this year, and decides to query the repository to determine if there are any additional vaccines John is now eligible for and has not yet received.
• The repository returns the recommended schedule for John, which includes pneumococcal vaccine.

• A user of an EMR (or other client system) requests detailed information about a patient's immunization history, potentially filtered by:
  • time-range of the immunization, 
  • time-range the immunization was last updated, and/or
  •  type of immunization.
• The EMR sends the query to the repository.
• The repository returns the requested list of past immunization events.

(The above flow represents a successful transaction, alternate flows exist.)

UC-3 Update an Immunization Record

The purpose of this use case is to describe the activities involved in recording updating an immunization event.

Trigger: Immunization has been administeredA healthcare provider needs to add additional information related to an immunization event to a record.

• Healthcare provider wishes to update information related to a vaccination event:
  • additional information in the textual comment,
  • add/change the vaccine dose number, and/or
  • mark the immunization course as complete
  Nurse administers the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines to John Smith at the Fairview Medical flu shot clinic
  • .
• She records the two events vaccination event in the Fairview Medical Clinic local EMR System; she sends messages with
• The EMR sends a request to update the immunization event details , including the Vaccine Types and the Reason for Immunization, to the Immunization Repository.

UC-4 Querying an Immunization Repository

The purpose of this use case is to describe the activities involved in retrieving immunization records from an immunization repository.

Trigger: Immunization information needs to be retrieved from an immunization repository.

• Neville Nuclear has accepted a new job as a healthcare worker. His employer has asked for a copy of his hepatitis B vaccinations. Neville completed the entire 3 dose series six months ago at the public health travel clinic.
• Nurse queries the immunization repository and is presented with a list of immunization events that note Neville has received three hepatitis B administrations.
• Nurse Nightingale retrieves the details of each hepatitis B administration and prints an official vaccination report for Mr. Nuclear.

• in the repository.
• The update is recorded in the repository and the message is acknowledged.

(The above flow represents a successful transaction, alternate flows exist.)