Ginny Puddefoot

Children's Advocates Roundtable

2-3pm

Secretary of State's Office in the Multipurpose Room

1500 11th Street Sacramento, CA

Call in number: (866) 422-9305
Participant Code #: 1972357656

Ginny Puddefoot Participates in this discussion on how Internet-based information systems can provide transition-aged youth with access and control over their own health, education and other essential records.

HealthShack is a Personal Health Record (PHR) system developed and implemented for homeless youth served by Wind Youth Services in Sacramento. 

Children's Advocates Roundtable

12-1pm

Secretary of State's Office in the Multipurpose Room

1500 11th Street Sacramento, CA

Call in number: (866) 422-9305
Participant Code #: 1972357656

Ginny Puddefoot, Director , HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth participates in a discussion that will focus on what the draft report includes to improve care and outcomes for California’s kids and youth, & will provide participants an opportunity to provide feedback to the Task Force. 

The Task Force has been meeting since June 2012 to develop a 10-year plan to “improve quality, control costs, promote personal responsibility for individual health, and advance health equity.”

Ginny Puddefoot presented at the state Health Information Exchange (HIE) Summit; highlighting the public/private collaborative effort led by TCP to develop a Strategic Plan to implement the state’s “Audacious Goal” to provide every child in foster care with a PHR within five years. 

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Ginny Puddefoot presented at the 2012 The California Wellness Foundation Conference on the Health and Well-being of Transition-Aged Youth; featuring a live demonstration of HealthShack, a Personal Health Record (PHR) system developed and implemented for homeless youth in Sacramento, followed by presentation of how Internet-based information systems can provide transition-aged youth with access and control over their own health, education and other essential records. 

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.

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Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Ginny Puddefoot, Director of Health IT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth, blogs on ensuring that foster kids benefit from the ACA. 

Ginny Puddefoot, Director HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth
March 29, 2012

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