i.   Patient Care Management

ii.  Maria F. Gomez

iii. The Patient Care Management system will allow entry of patient and care-giver details.  It will provide the patient care manager a tool to match patients with the care-givers that best suit their needs.

iv.  The system will do the following:

a)  Accept and store patient information such as name, year of birth, gender, address, type of care (e.g. live-in or periodic visit), duration, frequency of visit, allergies, medications and care-giver requirements, e.g. gender and languages spoken

b)  Accept and store care-giver information such as name, year of birth, gender, address, languages spoken, availability and assignment preferences such as distance to work

c)  Accept and store details of zip codes, e.g. latitude and longitude, that will be used to estimate the distance between two addresses

d)  Accept a patient's ID then perform the following when user clicks the 'match' button:
	- display patient information
	- search for care-givers whose qualifications and preferences match the patient's requirements
	- display the details of matching care-givers

v.   My sister works for a fast-growing company that provides patient care service.  The company does not have a computerized record-keeping system for patient and care-giver details.  The matching of care-givers to patients is currently being done manually by an over-worked coordinator (my sister).  A computerized Patient Care Management system would greatly help the company sustain its growth and would be beneficial to both patients and care-givers due to a more efficient matching tool.  It would also, hopefully, allow my sister to have a life outside work.

vi.  The system will be implemented using J2SE SDK 1.4.2 and Apache's suite of software (Ant 1.6.5, Axis 1.3, Tomcat 5.5.16, Xerces-J 2.8.0 and Xalan-J 2.7.0).  Patient, care-giver and zipcode details will be stored in XML files that will be validated against DTDs or XML Schema.  The user interfaces will be implemented using Java Servlet 2.0, TrAX and XSLT.

vii. I have no questions for now.  There will most probably be questions during implementation.