Clinical Trials application Use Case

Nathaniel Katz – Homework 1

Technology:

Clinical Trials application

http://www.iphoneclinicaltrials.com/

Description:

Clinical Trials.app is an iphone application that allows users to search for registered clinical trials from both the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health. The application offers advanced search, categorical search, user ratings of listed clinical trials, and email functions. Clinical Trials.app makes clinical trial information from government databases easily accessible to doctors, purchasers, and practitioners anywhere, at any time. These users will be able to learn about new products, research trial results for specific products, and make more informed choices on behalf of their patients and organizations.

Use Case:

Primary Actor: Physician – wants to research a new drug/device he’s recently heard about in order to make more informed decisions about prescribing that drug or using that device.

A physician accesses the Clinical Trial application via his iphone while waiting for his associate to pitch out of the sand trap on the 17th hole. He enters a new drug he’s heard of in the search function. The application searches government databases and returns results of all registered clinical trials for that drug. The physician is able to make a more informed decision about prescribing that drug.

Standards:

The only listed standard is that this product is an iphone application.