CCTOS Common : Care Team

• Objectives:
• A specific kind of group of Agents, specialized for the patients Care Team.
• Implementation of solutions for very sensible issues about confidentiality, as well for the patient, as well for the doctors.
• Summary:
• Derived from Group od Agents.
  
• A group of Agents in charge of the same patient, necessary for the care of the patient and having the trust of the patient.  A care team includes typically a GP, and when necessary maybe some specialists, paramedical professionals, members of the family, ... although having different user profiles.
• Registration of mandates from the patient.  More than one types of mandate. 
• In principle the patient has the full control of his/her Care Team.  However in practice the daily management of the care team may be done by the GP or Agents having been accepted as member of the Care Team of the patient.  
• The author of new information keep also a control on what he feel appropriate or not, to share share with colleagues.
• The Care Team should have a coordinator, usually the referent GP.
• The Care Team is a critical layer in access rights procedures, after the standard generic controls:
• The user must have a valid authentication.
• The user must have a profile providing permission to do the intended procedures, in general (read and/write given types of medical information).  Permissions depending on:
• The professional profile.
• Membership in the current organization.
  
• Trust of the patient:
• The user must have a recognized role for the patient, i.e. must be a registered member of the Care Team.
• Emergency exceptions, allowing some users to declare themselves immediately member of the Care Team, but requiring more control afterwards, as well notifications to the referent doctor and maybe to the patient himself.
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