Transitions+of+Care+Overview

Charter
Meaningful Use Stage 1 and foreseen Stage 2 requires information to be exchanged in transition of care. Implementers are often confused on how to use the specifications to exchange the required data. The exchange of clinical summaries is hampered by ambiguous common definitions of what data elements must at a minimum be exchanged, how they must be encoded, and how those common semantic elements map to MU specified formats (C32/CCD and CCR). Finally, the lack of a robust toolset to aid in development and validation of conformant templated clinical documents is a major impediment to the widespread adoption of the standards.

Purpose and Goals

 * The mission of the Transitions of Care Initiative is to improve the exchange of core clinical information among providers, patients and other authorized entities electronically in support of meaningful use and IOM-identified needs for improvement in the quality of care.
 * **Meaningful Use:** Exchange key clinical information among providers of care and with patients and other authorized entities electronically based on level of system capability, i.e., human readable, unstructured text or full interoperable structured data

Scope
The scope of this Initiative is as its first priority support for Meaningful Use Stage 1 summary of care (Eligible Provider, Eligible Hospital, and Critical Access Hospital) requirements for transition of care and transition of care to consumer and as a second priority support for expected Stage 2 requirements. Please refer to the ToC Document Types page for a summary of the clinical documents described in the use case.

Success Metrics
//NOTE: Success Metrics for the Transition of Care Initiative are being modified as part of the ToC Success Metrics Sub-Workgroup.// Date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 Time: 10:15am-12:00pm ET Please attend! || Date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 Time: 10:15am-12:00pm ET Please attend! ||
 * ~ Outcome Metrics || TBD at the October F2F Meeting
 * ~ Process Metrics || TBD at the October F2F Meeting