Queue: Adding New Contentions

[araposo-tistatech]

Background/context

Under law and regulations, a Veteran who served in Vietnam from January 9, 1962, to May 7, 1975 is presumed to have been exposed to herbicides. Furthermore, a particular set of medical conditions are presumed to be service connected for anyone who has been exposed to herbicide. Historically, the definition of "served in Vietnam" has been limited to Veterans who served on the landmass of Vietnam or its inland waterways, also know as brown water.

Last year both a court decision and bill passed by Congress expanded the presumption of exposure to herbicide during that time period to any Veteran who served within not more than 12 nautical miles from the coast of Vietnam, also know as blue water.

The goal of this project is to provide the Board for the Board of Veterans’ Appeals the ability to flag/mark Blue Water along with MST, Burn PIT, and CAVC contentions in Caseflow for congressional data capture purposes only.

Goals

Support the ability to add Blue Water, MST, Burn PIT, and CAVC as contentions in Case Flow

Success criteria

Launch special interest/contention marking functionality without work stoppage bugs

Stakeholders

Attorneys
Judges

Requirements/stories

• Legacy Appeals: Add special issues
• Special Issues Page: Add Validation
• AMA: Add Special Issues Page
• Remove "(optional)" from special issues page for legacy appeals

Open questions

What format will the data need to be supplied in for reporting team? Engineering to work with reporting team on this.

References/Resources

Product Brief

Designs and workflows

Special Issues Page for judges & attorneys. Note judges will be able to see any selections made by the attorney (this functionality already exists).

Legacy:

Legacy error if no option chosen:

AMA (new page addition):

AMA error if no option chosen:

Business value

Providing the BVA with the ability to capture data in Caseflow for congressional reporting purposes.

Dependencies

None

[araposo-tistatech]

@carodew @geronimoramos Can we add the contentions mock-ups we spoke about to this ticket so I can run them by the board for approval? Once that is complete, the engineering team should be able to begin the work on this.

[carodew]

@araposo-tistatech I thought we discussed that we didn't need mock ups, since we thought we could just have the engineers put together a page that follows the format of the current "add special issues" page in the check out flow. Am I misunderstanding?

[araposo-tistatech]

@carodew yes, but I did prefer to have at least screenshots to provide to the board, before engineering begins the work. In any case, I may be able to mock something up myself so feel free to disregard.

Thanks!

[carodew]

Gotcha – let me know if you need help.

[araposo-tistatech]

@hschallhorn Below are the VLJs who have authorized us to use their teams to pilot with:

Laura Collins
Nate Doan
Margie Auer

Depending on how many attorneys each VLJ has on their team we may want to limit this. Can we easily pull how many attorneys are on each team?

[hschallhorn]

names = ["LAURA COLLINS", "NATHANIEL DOAN", "MARJORIE AUER"]
judges = User.where(full_name: names)
judges.count
=> 3
judges.all?(&:judge_in_vacols?)
=> true
judges.map { |judge| JudgeTeam.for_judge(judge).attorneys.count }
=> [9, 7, 8]
pp judges.map { |judge| [judge.full_name, JudgeTeam.for_judge(judge).attorneys.map(&:full_name)] }.to_h
{"MARJORIE AUER"=>
  ["AMANDA PURCELL",
   "ESTHER KIM",
   "JOHN MIDDLETON",
   "ANDREW AHLBERG",
   "SHAUNA WATKINS",
   "KELLY GASTOUKIAN",
   "ADAM DOUGAN",
   "KELSEY LOVE",
   "MARTIN PETERS"],
 "LAURA COLLINS"=>
  ["MELISSA CARSTEN",
   "ALLEN KERPAN",
   "PAUL BAMETZREIDER",
   "ANTHONY HINES",
   "SARONE SOLOMON",
   "KATHRYN BRISTOR",
   "SAMANTHA CONTI"],
 "NATHANIEL DOAN"=>
  ["CLAIRE ROBINSON",
   "KELLYE THOMPSON",
   "ADRIAN JACKSON",
   "ASHLEY DEAN",
   "AMANDA GIBSON",
   "MARIANA MINAYA",
   "KRYSTAL WILSON",
   "KATHRYN BLEVINS"]}

24 attorneys in all

[araposo-tistatech]

Received all of our pilot users:

Laura Collins - Paul Bametzreider & Kathryn Bristor
Nathaniel Doan - Amanda Gibson & Claire Robinson
Marjorie Auer - Esther Kim & Shauna Watkins

[araposo-tistatech]

@hschallhorn Completed a walk through of the new additions with the pilot users. They are ready to begin the pilot session, let me know if 10am tomorrow works for you.

[araposo-tistatech]

epic was completed, closing