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Santa Monica, CA - Wendy Lazarus, Founder & Co-President, joins a broad coalition of health care officials and advocates for a press event in Los Angeles ...
Huffington Post Blog
Wendy Lazarus outlines the main "ingredients" for succes that matter the most for kids under the ACA. "Our collective job over the months ...
The Children's Partnership is pleased to announe that Beth Morrow, Director of Health IT Initiatives, is joining the Consumer Empowerment Workgroup (CEWG) of the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC). The newly formed Consumer Empowerment Workgroup’s charge is to provide recommendations on policy issues and opportunities for strengthening the ability of consumers, ...
Innovations in Health Reform Update April 2013 (pdf)
When it comes to innovators in health reform, Oklahoma deserves special recognition for taking steps to put an online real-time eligibility and enrollment system into place even before the ACA passed. In 2007, Oklahoma began planning for a first-class paperless ...
Come Learn About an Innovative Model to Bring Dental Care to Children in Preschool Settings
The Virtual Dental Home creates a community-based oral health delivery system in ...
California Health Report
Concern over accessibility to dental care for children on Medi-Cal brings to surface the need for alternative solutions to increase access. "One of ...
Ginny Puddefoot, , Director of HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth
California Child Welfare Council
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The Children's Partnership joined the Children's Defense Fund and other child advocacy organizations on a letter to HHS on a new health care law requirement ...
Huffington Post
As gaming becomes more social, it is expanding into parts of society once seen as untouched by video games. The largest of these groups is women, who make up 55 percent of social gamers on average. Women are also more likely than men to make charitable contributions, care about ...
The Washington Post
An article highlighting the VirtuallyGood4Kids (VG4K) inititative encouraging the gaming "industry to provide parents and their kids with more opportunities to direct the money they spend on virtual purchases toward fundraising causes."
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Telehealth refers to the use of technology to provide health care at a distance. The important and increasing role of telehealth in the delivery of health care has been recognized for several decades. Although there are fewer reports on the use of telehealth to deliver oral health services, evidence is emerging that these technologies can enhance the ability of the oral health delivery system to reach vulnerable and underserved populations.
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.
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.
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.