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Assessing Methods to Model Patient-Centric Care Pathways Across Multiple Healthcare Systems

Authors:
Sonja Cassidy
Øivind Skeidsvoll Solvang
Ove K. Lintvedt
Terje Solvoll
Conceição Granja

Keywords: patient-centric care; pathway modelling; integrated care; electronic health records

Abstract:
Clinical pathways have been promoted to maximize care coordination. Over the last decade, they have developed into patient-centric pathways, including the patient's needs and expectations of future health care. Integrated patient-centric pathways facilitate and encourage the coordination between multiple levels of care. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain information that could support integrated, patient-centric pathways. This paper aims to identify the challenges of modelling patient-centric pathways spanning primary and specialist care and provide guidelines for meeting those challenges. The study results show the lack of a standard definition of an integrated, patient-centric pathway and the various methods used to describe them. Finally, the study provides recommendations for a new approach for modelling EHR-supported, patient-centric pathways across the care continuum.

Pages: 99 to 103

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: June 26, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-984-3

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from June 26, 2022 to June 30, 2022