Improving Health Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: The Role of Electronic Record Systems

October 2008 The researchers sought to show how information and communications technology tools could benefit children in foster care. They noted that each year about 800,000 children are in foster care. Many programs and services are available to meet their health care needs, but children in foster care tend to have worse health, higher average health costs, and less access to needed health services than children who are not in foster care. The researchers reviewed ERS implementations for children in foster care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Kansas; Tennessee; Texas; Sacramento, California; and Arizona. The evaluation considered the population of foster . . .