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Healthcare Delivery, Payment & Quality for Informaticists

The care continuum, the care team, how care is paid for, value-based care, quality and safety frameworks — the context every informatics solution must fit.

The care continuum

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Prevention and primary care → specialty care → urgent/emergency care → hospital care → post-acute (rehab, skilled nursing, home health) → long-term and end-of-life care. Patients move across settings and organizations; information must move with them. Many informatics problems are transition problems (admission, discharge, referral, handoff).