This report is an overview of state activity that highlights how HIT solutions in Medicaid and in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are being used to improve care for America’s children.
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Download the CMS Report on Early Lessons from Medicaid Transformation Grants
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.
This fact sheet, authored by The Children’s Partnership with sign-on by California stakeholders, calls or a strong and early reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
This fact sheet provides information on how technology can help the Express Lane Eligibility effort, including examples of how states have begun to deploy it in other contexts.
Providing research and case studies that show how digital tools and applications can improve children’s education, health, employment, and civic opportunities, this issue brief urges groups working on children’s issues to include technology planks in their platforms and policy agendas. In addition to working for equitable access to digital tools for underserved children, the report encourages leaders of children to lobby for changes in public programs serving children to make them more effective, efficient and accessible by incorporating information and communications technology.
This fact sheet provides information on how Express Lane Eligibility fits into the health information technology (HIT) agenda.
This issue brief describes how telemedicine—the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to provide health care services at a distance—is used to improve the health of California’s children, especially those who are low-income or living in medically underserved areas. The brief provides an overview of the benefits of telemedicine for children and families, health systems, and communities. It also outlines challenges to successful adoption of telemedicine and provides concrete recommendations for action.
This issue brief describes efforts to use telemedicine in school and child care settings to help meet California’s goals related to school-based health centers, health reform and the use of technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our health care system.
The second in a series on how broadband benefits children, this issue brief examines how children with disabilities use broadband and other technologies. The report concludes that while technology gives children with special needs new opportunities, they are substantially less likely than their peers without disabilities to have access to computers, the Internet, and accessible and assistive technology.
This report examines strategies to reach the over 6 million children who are eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP but remain uninsured. Written by Georgetown Center for Children and Families in collaboration with The Children’s Partnership.