ArkCloud Care

Transitions and outreach

Two logs that answer operational questions: did a transition of care happen and was it followed up, and has anybody actually managed to reach this person.

Written for: Care coordinators · Care management leadership · Compliance reviewers

Transitions of care

Launcher → ArkCloud Care → Transitions

Transitions of care, logging a change of setting and the follow-up it requires

A transition record marks that a patient's care setting changed and what follow-up that triggered, so the period after a discharge is a tracked interval rather than a gap.

/care/transitions

Field or controlWhat it means
PatientIdentifiers encrypted at rest.
The transitionThe setting change - what the patient moved from and to.
Follow-upWhat is required after the change, and whether it has happened.
NotesOperational context. Encrypted at rest.

Outreach

Launcher → ArkCloud Care → Outreach

The outreach log, recording each contact attempt with its channel and outcome

Each contact attempt with its channel and outcome. Because attempts are counted rather than remembered, 'we have tried three times' becomes a fact rather than an impression.

/care/outreach

The log is what turns follow-up into something reportable: how many people were contacted, how many were reached, and how many attempts it took. None of those questions can be answered from individual recollection.

Important considerations

  • Both logs are operational. They record that something happened and what it triggered, not clinical judgement about it.
  • Patient fields in both are encrypted at rest and confined to your organisation by the same boundary as every other record.
  • Neither log takes an action on its own. Somebody works the follow-up; the system makes it visible that it is outstanding.

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