Systems and methods for transitions of care

Abstract

A system and method to manage the transitioning the care of an individual in a healthcare setting from one point of care with a particular set of characteristics to another physical location with a different set of characteristics by providing for the retrieval of information relating to an individual by a plurality of authorized users and devices at multiple facilities. The system includes a skin wearable, waterproof, non-transferable frangible individual identification device comprising an adhesive and an ink arranged to provide a physiologically and optically perceptible, humanly understandable, and machine readable information relating to said individual wherein once applied to skin said identification device is not removable in one piece without rendering the device inoperable; a plurality of reader devices; a computer interface device receiving information from said individual identification device and from said reader devices respecting the individual identified by said individual identification device; a computer system coupled to said computer interface device, said computer system including a memory with an algorithm for processing information collected by said computer system; and a separate set of reader devices and a separate service rendering system, each output information from their respective reader devices to a common database, the contents of said common database being coupled to a computing device which communicates information to said plurality of facilities.