title: Health Information Technology Coordination to Support Patient-centered Care Coordination.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To select papers published in 2014, illustrating how information technology can contribute to and improve patient-centered care coordination.
  
  
  METHODS
  The two section editors performed a literature review from Medline and Web of Science to select a list of candidate best papers on the use of information technology for patient-centered care coordination. These papers were peer-reviewed by external reviewers and three of them were selected as "best papers".
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first selected paper reports a qualitative study exploring the gap between current practices of care coordination in various settings and idealized longitudinal care plans. The second selected paper illustrates several unintended consequences of HIT designed to improve care coordination. The third selected paper shows that advanced analytic techniques in medical informatics can be instrumental in studying patient-centered care coordination.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The realization of true patient-centered care coordination is dependent upon a number of factors. Standardization of clinical documentation and HIT interoperability across organization and settings is a critical prerequisite for HIT to support patient-centered care coordination. Enabling patient involvement is an efficient means for goal setting and health information sharing. Additionally, unintended consequences of HIT tools (both positive and negative) must be measured and taken into account for quality improvement.
authors: Olivier Steichen, Service de médecine interne, Hôpital Tenon, 4 rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France, Tel: +33 (0) 1 56 01 78 31, Fax: +33 (0) 1 56 01 71 13, E-mail: olivier.steichen@aphp.fr.
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authors: Gregg
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D034742:Electronic Mail; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Medical Informatics; continuity of patient care; interprofessional relations; patient care planning; patient-centered care