Why?
The Transition of Care is Stage II Meaningful Use functionality. Objective #15 states: “the eligible provider (EP) who transitions their patient to another setting of care or provider of care or refers their patient to another provider of care should provide summary care record for each transition of care or referral” (CMS, 2013).
The short version of this is that if you transfer care of your patient to an outside provider or facility that does NOT use PowerChart, your department should send a summary of care.
To meet Measure 1 criteria for this objective, more than 50% of the patient transfers should have a summary of care.
Beginning in July, the process will be available to start using. During this time your departments should discuss workflows and team members that will need to be involved in this process. Call any of the HELP desks for more information.
