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An ICP determines locally agreed, multidisciplinary practice based on guidelines and evidence where available, for a specific patient/client group. It forms all or part of the clinical record, documents the care given and facilitates the evaluation of outcomes for continuous quality improvement". National Pathway Association (1998) ICP’s have their origin in providing coordinated care to patients by different specialist teams within a healthcare organisation. Each team records their interventions on a patient for a specific health condition in the organisation’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system and other teams intervene accordingly based on the notes provided. This paved the way to define electronic ICP’s (e-ICP) in EPR systems. The advent of Electronic Health Records (EHR) brought the possibility of extending ICP’s across multiple healthcare organisations from different care settings. EHR's facilitate flow of information across different care setting boundaries even to ...