Ben Pedersen, Project Manager
James Harrison, Project Facilitator
Marie Buckner, Domain Expert/Customer Liaison
Bing Shi, Artifacts Manager
Nathan Goodrich, Assurance/Security Manager
Team 7 – Polypharmacy (E-Armor)
The most important question we are looking to answer at the moment is the follow-up to 1; what patient information will our system store versus what will be drawn from existing electronic health records?
1) What hospital/health organization data are we assumed to be accessing (about patients)?
- Also, what information should our system store?
2) When the database of interactions receives an update, and a new interaction is flagged for a current patient/medication, what should the system do?
- What if the interaction applies to multiple patients
3) When health alerts (drug recalls, etc) are received, how should they be distributed?
4) How should the system handle entry of an unknown medication?
5) Should users be able to add interactions themselves? What verification process is needed?
- Are user-added interactions only presented as alerts to that user, all users, other?
6) Exactly who are the users? Will there be system administrators, and what would be their role?
7) What limits will doctors have on their access to the system, patient data?
- Can doctors "add" a patient themselves, or is this function limited to an administrator?
8) Should the system prompt users when reassessment of a patient is called for, and what should trigger reassessment?
9) Will the system identify patients by name or some other method (privacy concerns)?
10) Should the system flag "suspicious" patient drug history for possible addiction or criminal intent (drug-seeking behavior)?
11) Is the system mostly for large hospitals/many-doctor providers, or smaller practices?
12) How would you value a no-authorization-required mode where medications can be checked for interactions independently of specific patients?
13) What restrictions exist for where patient data is maintained?
-Would the preferred location be centralized (possibly even between multiple hospitals) or would storage be located at each health care institution?