HIT

Download TCP's submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HIT Policy Committee, regarding Stage 3 Meaningful Use criteria.

Ginny Puddefoot presented with Barry Zimmerman, Director of Ventura County Human Services Agency, to the California Child Welfare Council’s Information Sharing and Data Exchange Committee; highlighting TCP’s work on HIT and Care Coordination and the proposed Ventura County Foster Health Link Project.

Download the Power Point Presentation here. 

Beth Morrow, Director, Health IT Initiatives
Children's Health Care Caucus, Washington, DC
May 17, 2012

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 By Dawn Horner and Beth Morrow | January 2012

This roadmap lays out the four design features (and practical recommendations for action within each) necessary to enroll almost 4 million Californians newly eligible for subsidized health coverage under health reform, in addition to assisting the over 8 million already receiving such coverage. While written with a specific focus on California, the information and recommendations in the report will be relevant to decisionmakers in any state.

Download the Executive Summary
Download the Full Report 

By Beth Morrow | September 2011

The Children's Partnership has developed a guide to maximize HIT's ability to engage child and parent consumers in their own health by improving access to and use of their electronic health information. When designed with children and parents in mind, HIT can connect, inform, empower, and protect -- four guide posts to effective engagement of this critical consumer segment.

Download the report.

Health Reform Enrollment September 2011 Update 

Maximizing the Value of HIT to Improve the Health of Children: A Guide for Consumer Engagement. 

By Beth Morrow | July 2011

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of uninsured adults and children will gain eligibility for Medicaid or health coverage through new health insurance Exchanges beginning in 2014. The law calls upon states to develop simple and streamlined processes for establishing, verifying and updating eligibility for Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and federal subsidies for Exchange coverage.

By Stefanie Gluckman with Ashley Phelps | May 2011

California is poised to make great progress, and has an opportunity to leverage the tremendous potential of information technology to improve health and wellness outcomes for vulnerable populations, particularly children and youth living in foster care.  Recent technology and policy developments have created an environment in which it is possible to transform the delivery of care by linking systems, programs, and providers, allowing decision-makers efficient access to the information necessary to provide comprehensive care to the whole child.Building on two previous reports, this Issue Brief summarizes the potential for electronic information exchange to enhance care coordination and improve outcomes, highlights current efforts at the state and local level to achieve these results, and raises a few policy issues that, if resolved, would facilitate movement toward the goal of appropriate information exchange between programs and providers to serve vulnerable youth.

Download this Issue Brief.

Health Reform Enrollment May 2011 Update (pdf)

Health Reform Enrollment  April 2011 Update (pdf)

Also, Resources to Help States Move Forward with Health Reform Enrollment Systems Planning

By Lisa Han and Beth Morrow | March 2011

Health Reform Enrollment March 2011 Update (pdf)

By Stefanie Gluckman with Ashley Phelps | February 2010

 

The need for efficient and effective coordination of care to adequately serve children living in foster care is broadly acknowledged by experts in the field. This Roadmap describes how information technology and the electronic exchange of information can be used as a powerful tool to improve the coordination of care and provision of services for children living in foster care in California.

After presenting alternative models for an electronic system that facilitates information sharing between providers in the foster care system, and considering the technical, financial, and political opportunities that exist for moving this effort forward, this Roadmap recommends concrete steps that the State and other key stakeholders can take toward improving outcomes for children in foster care through the use of information technology.

Download the Full Roadmap  (PDF, 1.2 MB).

Download the Executive Summary  (PDF, 184 KB).

By Beth Morrow | January 2010

Technology-Enabled Innovations for Improving Children's Health, a joint project of The Children's Partnership and the Public Health Institute/Health Technology, has been highlighted in several media outlets. 

• Study: Don't Forget Children in Rush to Healthcare IT (HealthcareIT News, 8/24/09)
• Children's Needs Must Be Considered in Health IT Push, Study Says (iHealthBeat, 8/25/09)
• Pediatrics Has Unique EMR and HIT Needs (FierceEMP, 8/27/09)
• Youth Health Care Aided by Technology, Report Finds (Chronicle of Philanthropy, 9/17/09)

By The Children's Partnership | August 2008

By Terri Shaw | August 2009

By Beth Morrow | November 2008

Working Draft by Stefanie Gluckman with Terri Shaw | October 2008

This Issue Brief describes how Electronic Record Systems (ERS) - electronic health records, personal health records, and similar technology solutions that facilitate the management, sharing, and use of information - can benefit children in foster care, and the systems that serve them. The brief profiles state and local ERS efforts for the foster care population, highlighting early evidence of the efforts' impact and outlining lessons- learned. It also provides recommendations for actions to expand the reach of ERSs to benefit greater numbers of children in foster care and, potentially, other children and families.

Download the Issue Brief (PDF, 516 KB)

Download the Exectuve Summary (PDF, 216 KB)

Download a One-Page Overview of How Technology is Being Used to Improve the Lives of California's Foster Care Youth (PDF, 92 KB)

By Jenny Kattlove with Terri Shaw | March 2008

By First Focus and The Children's Partnership | March 2008

By The Children's Partnership

Health Data Management, 

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By Beth Morrow with Dawn Horner | May 2007