October 15, 2008

Improving Health Outcomes For Children In Foster Care: The Role of Electronic Record Systems

This report written by The Children's Partnership titled Improving Health Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: The Role of Electronic Record Systems contains information about the benefits an Electronic Record System (ERS) would bring to health care, especially to the care of foster children. There are over 800,000 foster children in the US and, if implemented, an ERS program would facilitate better collection, storage, sharing, and analysis of health information. This report provides readers with information about the ways ERSs can benefit children in foster care and the systems that serve them.

The report provides detailed information about the children currently in foster care, how foster children receive care, health care needs children in foster care need, why ERSs should be a priority, efforts currently being made to implement ERSs, evidence of impacts ERSs have, early lessons in developing ERSs for Children in Foster Care, and strategies that yield help to more children under new implemented ERSs.