Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-21-2022
Abstract
Data sharing is necessary to address communication deficits along the transitions of care among community settings. Evidence-based practice supports home healthcare (HHC) patients to see their primary care team within the first two weeks of hospital discharge to reduce rehospitalization risk. A small subset of patient data collected at HHC admission is mandated to be transmitted to primary care, predominantly by fax. Using qualitative analysis, we assessed completeness of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) interoperability standard, as compared to the patient data collected by the primary care team (topics) and HHC (classes) during the initial visit; and offer interoperability recommendations. Findings indicate the USCDI does not cover 74% of the 19 faxed HHC classes that mapped to the primary care topics, and 95% of the 38 not-faxed HHC classes. We offer USCDI recommendations to address these interoperability gaps.
Recommended Citation
Chou, Edgar and Sockolow, Paulina S, "Transitions of Care: Completeness of the Interoperability Data Standard for Communication from Home Health Care to Primary Care." (2022). Department of Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 354.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/medfp/354
PubMed ID
35308934
Language
English
Comments
This article is the author's final published version in AMIA: Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, Volume 2021, Pages 295 - 304.
The published version is available on Pubmed.
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