title: Constructing scenarios for validating the electronic health care record architecture.
abstract: The CEN TC 251 Electronic Health Care Record Architecture is the first part of a four part communication prestandard intended to facilitate the safe communication of clinical information, irrespective of circumstances related to time, distance, and responsibility. The work has important implications for a diversity of stakeholders and must embody clinical principles if it is to succeed. The issue at hand is how to enable clinicians to validate the reference architecture, which is necessarily a technical document, so that they have confidence that it can meet the clinical requirement for safe communication. A model of communication that has been used to ground the architecture is shown to be useful in creating relevant clinical scenarios to permit the first steps towards coherent validation in a systematic way.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Group, University of Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kay
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Marley
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Lundgren
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Broberg
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Prytz
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012986:Software Validation