Use Case Working Group

Charter

The Use Case Working Group (UCWG) is responsible for identifying and prioritizing user experiences to be addressed by the Continua Interoperability Guidelines. This is accomplished through a process of eliciting, collecting, compiling and analyzing use cases submitted by the Continua Health Alliance member companies. In an open forum, these use cases are reviewed for clarity and completeness, and consolidated to reduce redundancy. The result is a ballot of user experiences on which member companies can vote to voice their preferred priority. Outside of this process, the UCWG serves as a resource to the Technical Working Group on questions about market and user needs by soliciting input from domain experts and panels. Lastly, the UCWG shall produce a presentation summarizing the accomplishments, schedule, risks and plans of the group at each of the quarterly Continua Health Alliance Summits.

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Chair

Dr. Julian Goldman

Use Case Working Group Co-Chair

Director of the Program on Interoperability at CIMIT Partners HealthCare

Julian M. Goldman, MD is Director of the Program on Interoperability at CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology), a practicing anesthesiologist in the Massachusetts General Hospital 'Operating Room of the Future', and a Physician Advisor to Partners HealthCare Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Goldman received his Medical Doctorate from S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center in New York and performed anesthesiology residency and research fellowship training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Dr. Goldman practiced anesthesia in private practice prior to joining the teaching faculty at the University of Colorado. His research fellowship concentrated on artificial intelligence applications for medical monitoring, and anesthesia simulation. Dr. Goldman departed the University of Colorado as a Tenured Associate Professor in 1998 to work as Vice President of Medical Affairs of a medical monitoring company. He joined the Departments of Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2002.

Dr. Goldman has also served in the FDA Medical Device Fellowship Program, leads several ASTM, ISO, and IEC medical device standardization activities, and is immediate Past-President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia.

George Mac Ginnis

Use Case Working Group Vice Chair

NHS Connecting for Health
Assistive Technology Programme Lead

George leads NHS Connecting for Health's assistive technology programme, which was established in response to growing need to support the development and procurement of telehealth technologies that meet the emerging needs of the National Health Service in England, including integration into the NHS' electronic Care Records Service.

As well as working with the Continua Health Alliance driving the interoperability agenda, George has been involved in setting up a national procurement framework for personal health systems and supporting the Department of Health in the creation of the large scale "Long Term Condition Whole System Demonstrator" projects in England. George has been recognised for his contribution to the Continua Health Alliance with a Key Contributor award and has recently been elected as the Vice Chair of Continua's ‘Use Case Working Group' which is leading the work on identifying new opportunities for interoperability in personal health and wellness services.

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