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Research in transitions of care has shown that information flow from hospitals including notification of admission, discharge summaries, and medication lists is often poor and undermines good transition handoffs. Despite efforts to create interoperability and communicate important information about transitions of care, the flow of information is inconsistent, not supported by electronic health record (EHR) functionality, dependent on workarounds within the primary care provider (PCP) practice, and has little feedback to promote quality improvement efforts. The question for this study is if a web-based transitions of care application would be more effective, efficient, and desirable than current methods in identifying and managing transitions of care, and which features would be desirable. The proposed application would aggregate information from the Health Information Exchange and present to the primary care provider in a way that would align with their workflow.

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