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Building Electronic Information-Sharing Systems to Support Care Coordination in Illinois
Care coordination | Health Information Technology | Linkages

This is the first in a series of Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III Innovation Briefs. This brief focuses on electronic information-sharing systems that Illinois is building or adapting to improve care coordination for children with or at risk of developmental delays. Illinois is poised to improve care...

Larry Hinkle, Research Assistant
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
November 2011
NASHP Report: Health IT, Quality Reporting and Medicaid Well Child Benefits: An Assessment of Progress and Potential in the District of Columbia
Health Information Technology | Medicaid | Quality oversight

Recent developments indicate the emergence of a national framework for quality oversight and improvement in children’s health. Concurrently, investment in health information technology and exchange is creating state HIT/HIE infrastructure based on EHR-driven clinical data capacity. This report, commissioned by the United States...

Kitty Purington, Policy Specialist
Lynn Dierker, Senior Program Director
July 2011
Electronic Release of Clinical Laboratory Results: A Review of State and Federal Policy
Exchanges | Information technology | State regulation
State and national initiatives to promote health information exchange (HIE) are gaining momentum in the wake of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which provides over $40 billion to promote health information technology.  States face particular challenges in promoting HIE for clinical laboratory results.  This...
Kitty Purington, Policy Specialist
January 2010
Using HIT to Transform Health Care: Summary of a Discussion Among State Policy Makers
Financing | Information technology | Partnerships
States are finding health information technology (HIT) an essential tool in any plan that seeks to improve the efficiency, affordability, safety, and quality of their health care systems. This State Health Policy Briefing is intended to help state policy makers determine what role they will play in HIT development, how their state will use HIT,...
Mary Takach, Program Director
May 2008