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HCA 447 Project Documentation Project Overview

Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

Karen A. Wager I Frances Wickham Lee I John P. Glaser

Vision & Scope with Requirements HCA 447 Project Overview

• Imagine you are a healthcare administrator of a facility of your choice with a need for a new computer system.

• Document the Major Features and Functional Requirements that describe from a business perspective what functionality you need in an IT system for your healthcare setting.

• Project Scope, Executive Summary of the Project, Business Opportunity or Problem Statement, Business Risks and Benefits, Assumptions and Dependencies, Vision Statement, Success Measures, Stakeholders, Testing.

• At least 5 Major Features.

• At least 5 Functional Requirements for each of the 5 Major Feature.

• Well written functional requirements that contains 5 parts (Who Does What Why? Done When?)

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Requirements • A well written requirement contains 5 parts

• Who?

• Does?

• What?

• Why?

• Done When?

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Requirements • To Elicit Business Needs:

• What do you have? (current state)

• What do you want? (future state)

• What do you need? (gap analysis)

• To Elicit Requirements:

• What do you want the solution to do?

• How well do you want it to do it?

• Under what circumstances must it do it?

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Requirements • Major Features

• Either he added or removed functionality between the current state and the future state

• Functional Requirements:

• Who is the actor

• Does one action only

• What is the thing

• Why does the actor do the thing

• Done when the requirement is met (success/acceptance criteria)

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