Project Milestone 1

This project milestone spec will be improved as part of our weekly usergroup meetings in the course. For now, it is a basic framework so that we can begin asking questions.

The basics

This project is inspired by a real software system that the instructor worked on in industry, however we will be using only freely available information and the instructor will not be having you do any proprietary technology from the real project's company. Therefore, we will be all working together to design the system and its features from the ground up.

For our usergroup meetings, the instructor may prepare a short presentation on the assignment, but then it is up to you to ask questions and for us to iterate the design together. The instructor will act as the client and answer questions while updating the assignment live in class.

After groups are assigned, each group is required to ask one question or otherwise contribute at least one element to the spec each usergroup meeting.

The Spec

You will be designing and building a webpage that shows a report for a hospital for how they are doing in the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program. Details of this program are freely available online, though you will have to do much digging through government documents and databases to make sense of it all.

The program must:

  1. Be well designed and professional looking
  2. Be intuitive to the user
  3. Convey the required information appropriately

Specifically, the following information must be presented:

  1. The Fiscal Year that the report is for
  2. The hospital that the report is for
  3. The hospital's expected Medicare reimbursement for that fiscal year
  4. The calculated VBP bonus/penalty to the hospital for the given fiscal year
  5. The adjusted expected Medicare reimbursement for the hospital, accounting for the VBP bonus/penalty
  6. The hospital's score in each of the measures for the VBP program
  7. The threshold for each measure
  8. The benchmark for the measure
For this assignment, you will start by picking a hospital. The only restriction on this choice is you must not pick PVH (060010). Then, your deliverable is a tar file named groupX.tar where X is your group's number. Your group will also choose a professional company name and that will be featured on the page. The .tar will contain your .html file and your .css file. For now, the report is a static HTML page and is the only page in your application.

Please name your files report.html and site.css

Each team member must host the working site on their local_html directory accessable by the URL ~eid/ct310/m1/report.html

The Data

Data for the first milestone is available in a .zip file

Peer Effort Review

After the assignment is submitted, there will be a report in canvas where you will divide 100 points of effort between your 4 or 5 group members. If everyone contributed evenly, you will give them 100/n points (20 or 25 depending on group size). You will also have an opportunity to comment on each group member's participation. The instructor will take those points into account when assigning group effort scores for each project milestone.

Grading Criteria

  • Submission submitted correctly, files correct, named correctly (10%)
  • Report is plesent, well designed, and easy to read/use (10%)
  • Appropriate stylesheet selectors are defined and used to apply the CSS to the HTML(10%)
  • Report clearly indicates the hospital's name, information about the hospital, and the base medicare reimbursement expected (10%)
  • Report shows the initial VBP penalty for the fiscal year, the hospital's VBP score, and the amount of the penalty that is expected to return to the hospital (10%)
  • Report shows correct data for each measure, including threshold, benchmark, baseline score, performance score, achievement points, improvement points, and total points(10%)
  • Total points earned and possible are displayed for each domain (10%
  • Report look good as a PDF (using Google Chrome, ctrl+p to print, select "PDF" as destination and save)(10%)
  • Peer Effort Review (20%)