Ventura County California Pilots EHR Project For Foster Care Youth

Ventura County, California, is piloting a public-private electronic health record (EHR) project, called Foster Health Link, for youth in foster care that combines a personal health record with an electronic medical record (EMR). The personal health record was developed by Trilogy and the EMR was developed by Cerner. The county anticipates that Foster Health Link will help foster parents in the county become better informed about the health status of the children in their care and will help them engage more effectively with social workers and medical professionals to meet children’s health needs. Later, the county and its . . .