Information Sharing for Care Coordination

The health care literature argues compellingly that teamwork Figure 1: The care team for children with complex conditions. is of increasing importance to health care delivery, and improved care coordination is essential to improving patient safety and health. The lack of effective mechanisms to support health care providers in coordinating care is a major 1997), often base their communication mechanisms on theories deficiency of current health care systems (Leape 2012). My of teamwork and collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1996; thesis aims to develop agents that support the coordination Cohen and Levesque 1990; Sonenberg et al. 1992). These of teams caring for children with complex conditions (Amir approaches, however, typically do not reason about uncertainty et al. 2013).