IS705 Homework 1 - Healthcare Use Case

Title: Global Medical Imagery Access by Harris Healthcare Solutions.

Link to the article:
http://www.govcomm.harris.com/news/view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=2667

Brief Description:
Harris Healthcare Solutions has developed a service that will enable medical professionals to remotely locate, view and manipulate very large digital images of their patients online. The solution ensures that the images remain integrated with other patient records. The key component of the solution is the ability to transmit extremely large files to the remote locations such as rural areas using Harris tactical radios with broadband Ethernet capabilities. In my opinion, this is an extremely useful feature in countries that lack communication infrastructure in rural areas.

Brief Use Case:
Remote Access of Patient Images:
The primary actor in this use case is the doctor. A patient in the rural areas needs expert medical advice from a doctor in a large city hospital. The city doctor uses the system to view the medical images of the patient and advises the local doctors that are actually treating the patient. The patient can move from one hospital to another and can seek advice from multiple doctors using the same medical images stored in the system. The goal of the solution is to provide interoperability amongst different healthcare systems and to provide better medical assistance to remote locations.

Standards:
There is no mention of the standards being used by the company for this solution.