Top challenges and opportunities for home care coordination have been identified in this study. A literature review was performed for its opportunities to analyze and synthesize information from a number of studies. Identified challenges include power imbalance, lack of EHR integration. Opportunities include physician’s willingness of sharing information, clinician’s intention to work for a long-time reducing staff overturn coordination problem etc. Recommended directions such as online video streaming training, centralized portal sharing patient information are provided.

Learning Objective: (i) identified the top challenges and opportunities to better
coordination of home care services and
(ii) derived initiative recommendations for HHAs to improve care coordination.

Authors:

Mohammad Ishtiaque Rahman (Presenter)
University of Maryland- Baltimore County

Gunes Koru, University of Maryland- Baltimore County

Presentation Materials:

• Abstract/Manuscript - 1