Headspace Project Automated Information Recording System: Overview, Stakeholder Interests, And Use Case

Stakeholder Interest in the Project

Discuss about the Headspace Project Automated Information Recording System.

A number of business sectors, industries and organizations have been set up in different parts of the globe. The set of activities and business operations that are performed by these entities are also different in terms of the area of operation, methodologies that are applied and the information that is associated with it. Every country has some sectors and lines of businesses that are present on a mandatory basis and healthcare is an example of the same. In the healthcare sector, there are numerous tasks and operations that are carried out daily. There are various activities that the organizations and agencies associated with this sector perform on a daily basis. A share of $54 Million has been invested by the Australian Government in the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. This programme was later renamed and popularized as Headspace. In the recent years, there is a lot of youth that suffers from different medical problems and issues, such as, anxiety, depression, mental health syndromes and many other conditions. It has become required to provide the due care and attention to these patients so that their condition does not worsen (Rhyous, 2011).

Headspace project is an initiative to provide the required care, treatment and support to the youth suffering from any of the medical conditions and disorders. In order to accomplish the task, it is required to investigate and gather the information from the patients. The patients share their problems and issues in the form of a story which is stored in the information that is associated with the case. However, there are not one but many workers that handle the case and it is troublesome for the patients to share the same story with each of the worker again and again.

Due to the nature of the issues that are currently present in the system, it has been proposed to set up and advanced and automated systems that will capture the patient story in the first go. The system will record the information and will analyze the same.

Headspace project is an initiative to provide the required care, treatment and support to the youth suffering from any of the medical conditions and disorders. In order to accomplish the task, it is required to investigate and gather the information from the patients. Apart from the patients, there are other stakeholders that are also involved in the project, such as the project sponsor, clinical team, case workers, project team, project management and likewise. There will be abundant information that will be available with all the stakeholders. Many of the techniques and methods have been developed to make sure that the information that is gathered is relevant and as per the requirement. Some of the investigation techniques that may be used for the purpose include interviews, questionnaires, observations, and brainstorming sessions. Questionnaire technique is used and applied to cover the details and requirements associated with the project.

• What is the health information that you look out for while discussing the case with the patients?
• There must be multiple discussions that a patient needs to attend to convey all the information related with his/her mental and health condition. What is the average number of such discussions and meetings in a case?
• What are the major problems that are present in the system that is currently followed in the process of information collection and storage?
• Do you classify the patient information as per the contents and protection criteria of the information or is it treated as the case information as a whole?
• What are the data operations that you use and apply on the patient information? What are the tools that are used for the purpose?
• What are the various platforms that you would prefer for accessing the system?
• What are the set of non-functional requirements that you would wish to be included in the system?
• Is there any other automated application or system that is currently being used in the project for the execution of the project activities?
• What is the technical expertise that you have in terms of understanding the flow of the application and its features? Would you like to receive a training session as the first step before the practical usage?
• Health information is considered as the sensitive information. What are the measures that you and your team takes for the protection of the health information of the patient?

Questionnaire for the Stakeholders

Use Case Model (Agilemodeling, 2016)

• Access the Application

The customers, that is, the patients and the representatives from the clinical team and case workers will be allowed to access the application. In order to gain entry to the application, a unique id and a matching password will be necessary which will be followed by a biometric identification. In such a manner, the application information will be protected at all times.

• Provide Customer Data

The primary purpose of the application is to capture the patient story. The patient story will be captured by the system in the form of the responses that will be provided by the patient to the questions that will be asked. This data will be recorded by the system and will be stored by the id of the patient which will be a unique identifier.

• Manage the user and setting up of the privileges

The system administrator will have the ability to manage all the users that will be granted the access to the system. The set of privileges and the operations that will be allowed to be carried out by the users will be based upon the type of the user. Such settings and the modifications in these settings will be allowed to be performed by the administrator only (Fakhroutdinov, 2016).

• Analysis of the Data

The clinical team and the case workers currently make use of explicit tools and packages for analyzing the data that is provided by the patients. There are also manual operations that are currently involved in the process. However, the automated system will integrate the data analytics tools that will analyze the patient story and will highlight the results. These results will assist the clinical team and case workers in the development of the measures for the treatment of the patients.

• Feedback and Medical reports

The clinical team will provide the case workers with their analysis reports in the form of the medical feedback along with the medical documents. These reports and documents will be uploaded by the clinical team members on the system and the case workers will be allowed to access and download the same by making use of a valid set of credentials.

• Development of the solution

The responsibility of the development of the source code for the system will be on the project developer. There will be a front end that will be developed comprising of all the system functional requirements and specifications. This front end will then be connected with the database that will be the back-end of the system. The project developer will be required to come up with the source code and will also be required to perform a unit testing of the code to ensure that there are no bugs and faults present in the code (Wick, 2016).

• Equipment for the Project

The patients will be notified about their diagnosis results and the need to provide further responses by creating alerts and reminders for them regarding the upcoming sessions. The completion of the project activities will include a lot many tools and equipment as well, such as computer systems, networking tools and many more. These will be provided by the service providers, that is, the suppliers and the vendors and they will receive their share of payments in return.

References

Agilemodeling,. (2016). UML 2 Use Case Diagramming Guidelines. Agilemodeling.com. Retrieved 04 September 2017, from https://agilemodeling.com/style/useCaseDiagram.htm

Bourne, L. (2016). Stakeholder Relationship Management. Retrieved 04 September 2017, from https://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/PDF_Papers/P128b_Stakeholder_Relationship_Management.pdf

Fakhroutdinov, K. (2016). UML actor is a role played by a human user of the designed system, some other system or hardware that interacts with the subject by using services of the subject.. Uml-diagrams.org. Retrieved 04 September 2017, from https://www.uml-diagrams.org/use-case-actor.html

Rhyous,. (2011). The 8 Types of Technical Documentation and Why Each Is Important. Rhyous. Retrieved 04 September 2017, from https://www.rhyous.com/2011/07/21/the-different-types-of-technical-documentation-for-software-and-why-each-is-important/

Walker, D. (2016). Influence, Stakeholder Mapping and Visualisation. Retrieved 04 September 2017, from https://mosaicprojects.com.au/PDF_Papers/P062_Influence_Stakeholder_Mapping_and_Visualisation.pdf

Watt, A. (2016). 5. Stakeholder Management | Project Management. Opentextbc.ca. Retrieved 04 September 2017, from https://opentextbc.ca/projectmanagement/chapter/chapter-5-project-stakeholders-project-management/

Wick, S. (2016). User Stories and Use Cases - Don’t Use Both!. Batimes.com. Retrieved 04 September 2017, from https://www.batimes.com/articles/user-stories-and-use-cases-dont-use-both.html