Question

What is the relation between Continuity Care Records and Continuity Care Documents? (Please provide reference source in APA form and paraphase in your own words thank you)

Answer 1

Continuity Care Records and Continuity Care Documents relationship:

Continuity Care Records:

Continuity of care record is a health record standard specification developed jointly by ASTM International, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Health care Information and Management Systems Society, the American Academy of Family Physicians , the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other health informatics vendors.

The CCR was generated by health care practitioner rebased on their views of the data they may want to share in any given situation.

The CCR aims to increase the role of the patient in managing their health and reduce error while improving continuity of patient care.

The CCR standard is a patient health summary standard. It is a way to create flexible documents that contain the most relevant and timely core health information about a patient and to send these electronically from one caregiver to another.

The CCR intent is also to create a standard of health information transportability when a patient is transferred, or is seen by another healthcare professional.

Technology and the CCR:

As mentioned, the CCR standard uses extensible Markup language (XML) as it is aimed at being technology neutral to allow for maximum applicability. This specified XML coding provides flexibility that will allow users to formulate, transfer, and view the CCR in a number of ways.

Continuity Care Documents:

Continuity of care document is electronic patient information data is stored and it continuation of past and present health information of the patient. Based on CCD implementation has been done. It is most benefit system for patient and the health care setting. The CCR document is used to allow timely and focused transmission of information to other health professionals involved in the patients care.

Continuity of care document is an extensible markup language standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of a patient summary clinical document for exchange. It was developed by health level 7. The structural components constraint on clinical document architecture standard and it can specify that the document consists of mandatory textural part and a optional structural part. Textural part ensures human interpretation of the document content and structured part is for software processing.

Reference:

ASTM E31.28, Continuity of Care Record (CCR): the concept paper of the CCR. Available fromwww.astm.org/COMMIT/E31_ConceptPaper.doc. Accessed 12/03/05.

Electronic Medical Summary (e-MS). Available from: http://www.e-ms.ca/documentation.php. Accessed 04/18/05.

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