Technology and collaborative working between hospitals and care homes: Opportunities to enable enhanced clinical interventions for care home residents?

Long-term care institutions rely on primary health care to access medical care and specialist services.  Records of inappropriate and unplanned hospital admissions as well as the recognition of unmet health needs have highlighted the necessity to improve the exchange of information between care homes and hospitals. To what extent is data management facilitating cooperation and effective decision-making to deliver enhanced care to residents? This session aims to evaluate the different interoperable approaches and identify barriers and facilitators to integrated working.