Supported by electronic standardized clinical data systems, assessment data can follow the patient across multiple care settings and optimize the coordination and quality of care.
At its core, health information exchange (HIE) entails the ability for multiple care providers and stakeholders to appropriately, efficiently, and securely access a patient's medical information [ 4].
The target population is an ideal group for medication reconciliation study because the patients usually have long medication lists, multiple care providers, and frequent transition between the hospital, clinic, and home care settings.
Older persons receive multiple care services and are treated at different care facilities.
Nor are published studies reliable in capturing multiple care events and multiple interactions over time, as occurs in the cancer trajectory.
Care pathways can be complex, often involving multiple care providers and as such are recognised as containing multiple opportunities for error.
In this regard, an internet-based system has been developed to follow geriatric patients' treatment across multiple care settings and to track patient functioning longitudinally.
Whether an ICP enlists the system to provide direct assistance (e.g., activity prompting), retrieve care-related information, and coordinate care between AAL and multiple care partners, the decision and process by which ICPs entrust care to another party cannot be taken for granted.
The last theme of social and emotional pressures includes the factors frustration/regret, liability and/or fear and multiple care provider conflict.
Another potential caveat concerns the fact that private hospital data did not adjust for deceased and non-resident patients and multiple care episodes.
