The purpose of this use case is to describe the activities involved in determining immunization status.
Trigger: A healthcare provider wishes to assess eligible, at-risk candidates’ immunization status.
UC-2 Immunization Forecast
The purpose of this use case is to describe activities involved in retrieving a client’s immunization forecast from an immunization repository for an identified client.
Trigger: A healthcare provider wishes to obtain patient-specific immunization forecast information.
- A healthcare provider calls John Smith to let him know about the flu clinic next week and to advise him to attend for his flu shot.
- The healthcare provider 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.
UC-3 Record an Immunization Event
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 the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines to John Smith at a medical clinic.
- The healthcare provider records the two events in the clinic's EMR System; she sends messages with 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.
- A healthcare provider queries the immunization repository and is presented with a list of immunization events that note Neville has received three hepatitis B administrations.
- The healthcare provider retrieves the details of each hepatitis B administration and prints an official vaccination report for Mr. Nuclear.
UC-5 Revising an Immunization Record
The purpose of this use case is to describe the activities involved in revising an immunization record.
Trigger: Nurse needs to add additional information on an immunization event to a record.
- Nurse notices that she forgot to include the influenza vaccine lot number in John Smith’s record.
- Nurse Nightingale adds the lot number to the record and sends the detail to the Immunization Repository to update the record.