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Ginny Puddefoot

Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population

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Ginny Puddefoot, , Director of HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth 

California Child Welfare Council
Data Linkage and Information Sharing Committee
San Francisco, CA

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Live Demonstration of Health Shack: Empowering Youth Through Technology

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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. 


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"Let's Get Healthy California" Task Force Draft Report

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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.”


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Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population

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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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Empowering Transition-Aged Youth Through Technology

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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. 

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Improving Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: The Role of Electronic Information Exchange

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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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Youth in Foster Care Can Benefit Greatly from ACA, but Need Advocates to Act Now to Make Sure They Do

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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. 

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Improving Health Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: The Role of Electronic Information Exchange

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

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Children's Health Care/Health Reform

  • The Children's Partnership Joins Coalition at Press Event to Urge for Action on Medi-Cal Expansion
    on April 11, 2013

    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 ...

  • Wendy Lazarus on Children and the ACA, A High-Stakes Recipe for Success
    on April 10, 2013

    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 ...

Health IT

  • Comments on RFI on Accelerating Interoperability and Information Exchange Across the Care Continuum
    on April 22, 2013
    The Children's Partnership joins a list of twenty-one organizations on this sign-on letter from the Consumer Partnership for eHealth and the Campaign from Better Care, responding to the HHS Request for Information (RFI) on advancing interoperability and health information exchange.
  • Beth Morrow Joins Consumer Empowerment Workgroup
    on April 05, 2013

    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, ...

Family-Friendly Enrollment

  • Interviews with Innovators from Oklahoma
    on April 22, 2013

    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 ...

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  • Group Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing Eligibility and Enrollment for the Individual Exchange
    on April 03, 2013
    Download submitted comments from The Children's Partnership and our consumer advocate partners regarding the Exchange's March 21, 2013 proposed eligibility and enrollment regulations for the Individual Exchange (Covered California). 

Dental Health

  • Virtual Dental Home Educational Event
    on May 08, 2013

    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 ...

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  • Jenny Kattlove Advocates for Alternatives to Increase Access to Oral Care for California's Children.
    on May 01, 2013

    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 ...

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Foster Care Coordination

  • Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population
    on March 06, 2013

    Ginny Puddefoot, , Director of HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth 

    California Child Welfare Council
    Data ...

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  • Joint Letter on the Proposed Regulations for Medicaid to Age 26 for Eligible Former Foster Youth
    on February 20, 2013

    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 ...

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Internet and 21st Century Skills

  • Wendy Lazarus on Social Gaming and Child Poverty
    on September 27, 2012

    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 ...

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  • TCP Gaming Paper Encourages Gaming Industry Towards Philanthropy
    on September 26, 2012

    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."

    Learn more about VirtuallyGood4Kids.

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