Care coordination
DEMO-22 — Ownerless Gap: Competing Ownership Assertions
Authored demonstration. Not a live employer result.
01 · Situation
Two departments each document a belief that the other holds a specific handoff obligation.
Illustrative inter-departmental handoff protocol, which establishes that a handoff obligation exists for this transition type but does not itself name which department holds it.
02 · Evidence
What the record holds.
- E1Handoff protocol establishing the obligation exists at this transition point
Verified · on file
- E2Department A's internal note stating the handoff is Department B's responsibility
Verified · Day 0
- E3Department B's internal note stating the handoff is Department A's responsibility
Verified · Day 0
- E4No signed assignment, transfer, or acceptance artifact naming either department found in either department's repository
Verified · Day 5
03 · Obligations / Owners
The chain of responsibility.
- 01
The handoff obligation itself is established by E1. Ownership is not established by either E2 or E3, which are competing assertions, not assignments.
04 · Event Type
The classification of the event.
Two competing stored statements (E2, E3); no ObligationAssigned event located (E4).
05 · Verification Result
What verification established.
INSUFFICIENT as to ownership — the reviewed artifacts establish competing ownership assertions but do not establish an authoritative assignment to either department.
06 · Projection
What the evidence implies ahead.
Owner not demonstrably established.
07 · Next Action
The corrective obligation.
Require an authority with standing over both departments to issue an explicit assignment.
08 · Economic Boundary
Where the evidence stops.
Not established.
09 · Engine Answer
What the Engine can and cannot establish.
E1 establishes that a handoff obligation exists at this transition. Two internal notes each assert the obligation belongs to the other department, and no signed assignment or acceptance names either. The Engine can demonstrate that the obligation exists and that its ownership is not demonstrably established. It does not conclude that neither department actually held it, and it does not assign responsibility itself — only a governing authority with standing over both departments can do that.
The obligation exists. Its owner, on this record, does not
10 · What Remains Unknown
Outside the Engine's reach.
Which department, if either, actually understood itself to be acting; whether an assignment exists outside the two reviewed repositories.