Care coordination within healthcare organizations has been recognized as an essential part of improving outcomes and quality of care. Take the case of a 37-year-old pregnant woman, scheduled for delivery in an academic medical center after she was evaluated in the medical center’s freestanding community OB/GYN clinic. The healthcare network had recently acquired the outpatient OB group practice and the integration of the EHR system was in process but was anticipated to take several months to complete. The intern on the Labor and Delivery team received a verbal patient history and noted a negative test for an infection screening at 37 weeks gestation, however, he failed to notice the faxed records from the clinic showing positive results for the infection from a screening done two w

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