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Determining agreement on requirements related to maintaining confidentiality is vital for the exchange of client information between organizations.

Establishing a steering committee is a key activity to ensure strategic planning occurs with all partners and enables the plan to get created in the first place.

Establishing policies and procedures is key to ensuring that clinical and/or administrative processes are coordinated. An example is a procedure for how and when to make referrals to primary care or public health.

Circulation of minutes is just one of many ways to formalize communication processes. There are many more such as regular meetings over lunch hours.