What is CCITI NY

The Continuum of Care Improvement Through Information New York (CCITI NY) was established to improve the quality, patient safety, cost, and satisfaction aspects of transferring patients between acute, post-acute, and ambulatory care organizations in the greater New York metropolitan region. The CCITI NY project will combine the strength of a standardized electronic transfer form process with an automated clinical decision support tool.

Mission Statement

To promote and facilitate the development of, and to serve as, a community-wide data exchange system with the goal of enabling health care providers across the continuum of care to share health information through electronic interfaces for the public objective of improving health care services for the community

Major Goals

Collect available patient information by leveraging the planned infrastructure and clinical messaging capabilities of participating Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and other acute care facilities, as applicable.

Improve the quality and effectiveness of care provided to patients transitioning between acute and post-acute settings by providing key information to care providers in advance of patient arrival.

Reduce the incidence and associated cost of patients that are currently readmitted to acute care facilities because information regarding their care is incomplete or unavailable to providers in the post-acute care setting.

Provide decision support to clinicians managing medically complex and elderly patients by deploying a clinical decision support tool which provides key information on major drug to drug interaction.

Quality of Care

The quality and safety aspects of managing and coordinating care for older and disabled patients with complex medical conditions who are being treated with multiple medications can be improved through automated clinical decision support tools. Improving medication management for this patient population can potentially improve their transition across the continuum of care and result in reduced readmission to acute care facilities. An incremental approach to decision support will be taken to ensure measurable improvements in the coordination of care are achieved prior to implementing additional tools.