Prof. Name

Date

Patient Discharge Care Planning

This assessment is based on a patient scenario named Marta Rodriguez, who had a car accident in Nevada. As a freshman in the first semester of college, Marta had gained a student health insurance plan and was acquiring care in the nearest shock trauma center for the past four weeks. However, she was recently moved from New Mexico to Nevada to study. Marta underwent several surgeries and antibiotic treatment against systemic infection.

The patient’s native language is Spanish, while English is her second language. As a senior care coordinator overseeing Marta’s care treatments, analyzing the key issues that interprofessional team members must delve into to ensure effective discharge care planning for patients is imperative.

Therefore, I will present Marta’s case in an upcoming interprofessional team meeting to discuss the careful discharge plan with a coordinated care approach. This will require meaningful use of Health Information Technologies (HIT) to enable care coordination and continuity of care in the discharge planning. Moreover, the plan will discuss data reporting ways and their impact on care management and clinical efficiency. Lastly, the plan will discuss how the patient-reported health information can enhance the patient’s health outcomes.

 Longitudinal Patient Care Plan

HIT plays a significant role in smooth care transitions and the continuum of care after patient discharge. These innovative technological alternatives to traditional in-person care can promote remote monitoring and virtual follow-up appointments (Abraham et al., 2022). In Marta’s case, interprofessional team members can use Electronic Health Records with multilingual capabilities to create and maintain a concise and thorough digital record of the patient’s medical history and treatment plans.

This will include her shock trauma center stay, surgeries, and antibiotic treatment histories (Khoong et al., 2020). The healthcare professionals will use this platform to access real-time data about Marta’s health status. This will facilitate collaborative decision-making and ensure continuity of care across different healthcare settings (Khoong et al., 2020).