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NTOCC WORKGROUPS
Upon its founding the NTOCC Advisory Task Force created four work groups to address key areas associated with Transitions of Care. Various organizations on the Advisory Task Force collaborate within each work group to discuss solutions and create resources.
Education & Awareness:
Working to address awareness and general knowledge about the problems associated with transitions of care and provide the necessary information to various stakeholders – patients, caregivers, health care professionals, and government officials.
Tools & Resources:
Identifying practical tools and resources that can be used by health care professionals, care givers and patients to improve communication in a consistent manner between care settings and reduce risk associated with care transitions.
Policy & Advocacy:
Assessing ways to improve care through enhanced communication tools, collaborative partnership and enhanced reimbursement for transitional care support and technical medical information shared between care settings. Measures:
Assessing and defining appropriate performance measurement frameworks to demonstrate the impact of interventions on reducing risk associated with transitional care.
Health Information Technology (HIT):
Ascertain the barriers and gaps within the information technology field associated with a safe transition of care. Align the considerations made in the NTOCC Policy Concept and The Transition Care Measure papers to incorporate the considerations made in these documents reforming gaps in technology to achieve a safe transition for all patients. Provide the NTOCC Advisory Task Force with health information technology considerations for standardizing information required to ensure safe transitions, especially in anticipation of increasing adoption of HIT system in all clinical settings.
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