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Annotation: This consensus statement presents insights from a project focused on integrating oral health into electronic health records (EHRs). The aim of the statement is to advance the use of EHRs, thereby improving patient care. The statement also includes information on the current state of oral health integration, challenges to and opportunities for integration and data sharing, core oral health and general health indicators to share between health information systems, and implementing integration of oral health into EHRs.

Contact: FDI World Dental Federation, Tour de Cointrin, Chemin de Joinville 26, 1216 Geneva, Switzerland Telephone: (41) 22 560 81 50 Fax: (41) 22 560 81 40 E-mail: info@fdiworldental.org Web Site: http://www.fdiworldental.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Information systems, Medical records, Oral health, Records management, Service integration, Statistical data

Annotation: This toolkit provides guidance on assessing the effectiveness of a project to improve the delivery of oral health care services provided to pregnant women, infants, and young children by integrating oral health care into primary care. Contents include worksheets and guides for identifying, planning, implementing, and interpreting the effectiveness of a quality-improvement project. Topics include plan, do, study, act cycles and process mapping. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: California Department of Public Health, Office of Oral Health, MS Code 8305, P.O. Box 997377, MS 0500, Sacramento, CA 95899-7377, Telephone: (916) 558-1784 E-mail: mchinet@cdph.ca.gov Web Site: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/Pages/OralHealthProgram/OralHealthProgram.aspx

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Keywords: Organizational change, Data collection, Forms, Infant health, Infants, Oral health, Perinatal health, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Program improvement, Qualitative evaluation, Quality assurance, Quantitative evaluation, Records management

Annotation: This toolkit describes best practices for vaccine storage and handling. Topics include the vaccine cold chain; storage and handling plans; staff and training; storage and temperature monitoring equipment, troubleshooting; inventory management; and vaccine deliveries, transport, preparation, and disposal. Additional resources such as a poster, worksheets, a checklist, a sample stock record and tally sheet, shipping labels, and manufacturer/distributor contact information are included.

Contact: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: https://www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/forms/contact-us.html Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Manuals, Planning, Records management, Risk management, Training, Vaccines

Annotation: This guide provides an overview of the factors, programs, and regulations supporting exclusive breast milk feeding data documentation, measurement, and reporting in electronic health records (EHRs) during the birth of a newborn. The guide is designed for software designers, analysts, developers, and implementers, as well as clinicians implementing standards-based EHRs. Topics include the health potential of exclusive breast milk feeding; regulations driving quality measurement using health information technology; implementation guidance including scope, assumptions, and key concepts; breast milk feeding reporting and/or designation programs; future areas of development; and breast milk and breastfeeding resources.

Contact: United States Breastfeeding Committee, 2025 M Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 367-1132 Fax: (202) 367-2132 E-mail: office@usbreastfeeding.org Web Site: http://www.usbreastfeeding.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Data collection, Electronic communications, Measures, Medical records, Model programs, Quality assurance, Recordkeeping, Records management, Resources for professionals, Standards, Technology transfer

Annotation: This brief identifies key issues affecting access to sensitive services for young people in California under health reform, summarizes current federal and state confidentiality guidelines with special attention to the role of electronic health records (EHR), and highlights EHR challenges and opportunities to protect confidentiality while providing sensitive services.

Contact: University of California, San Francisco, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0410, Telephone: (415) 476-5255 Web Site: http://healthpolicy.ucsf.edu Available from the website.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Adolescents, California, Confidentiality, Consumer protection, Guidelines, Health care reform, Medical records management, Policy development, Young adults

Annotation: This report explores the potential for health information technology (health IT) to increase access to oral health care among vulnerable populations. Specifically, the authors report on whether and how health IT and the Medicaid electronic health record incentive program can be used as tools to improve access to high-quality oral health care for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The appendix contains a background report that synthesizes the literature and provides foundational context.

Contact: NORC at the University of Chicago, 4350 East West Highway, Eighth Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814, Telephone: (301) 634-9300 Fax: (301) 634-9301 Web Site: http://www.norc.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Children, Children', Medicaid, Oral health, Program improvement, Quality assurance, Records management, Technology, s Health Insurance Program

Annotation: This report examines the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) administrative standardization and the process of modifying the standardized codes for children with Medicaid coverage found to be at-risk for developmental problems. Implications of HIPAA standardization for payment of Medicaid-covered early childhood preventive and developmental services are assessed, drawing on findings from a 50-state, point-in-time review of readily available state HIPAA compliance documents conducted in December 2004. Topics include a early child health care; insurance coverage; claims reimbursement; a definition of preventive and developmental services; a review of the relationship between coverage, payment, and quality of care; reimbursement; HIPAA; and a review of the study methodology. Examples from several states are used to illustrate reductions or potential reductions in coverage, maintenance of similar levels of coverage, and expansions in coverage. Notes and and an appendix containing a coding taxonomy conclude the report.

Contact: Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, Telephone: (212) 606-3800 Fax: (212) 606-3500 E-mail: info@cmwf.org Web Site: http://www.commonwealthfund.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child development services, Child health, Clinical coding, Confidentiality, Health services delivery, Medicaid, Medical records, Records management, Reimbursement

Annotation: This report reviews the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) response to the difficulties of managing, preserving, and providing access to federal agencies' electronic records. Also reviewed are NARA's efforts to acquire an advanced electronic records archiving system, which will be based on new technologies that are still the subject of research. The report includes the following sections: results in brief; conclusions; recommendations for executive action; agency comments, and a glossary. The appendices provide information on the report's objectives, scope, and methodology; an evaluation of approaches to archiving electronic records; a review of agencies managing large volumes of important electronic records; and comments from NARA.

Contact: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20548, Telephone: (202) 512-3000 E-mail: contact@gao.gov Web Site: http://www.gao.gov Available from the website. Document Number: GAO-02-586.

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Keywords: Electronic publications, Federal agencies, Government records, Information systems, Process evaluation, Records management

Annotation: This book reviews the exchange of medical records in the computer era and considers issues such as the quality of the data exchanged in information systems and the privacy of patient records. Health data organizations (HDOs) are becoming more common with an increased ability to access and share these records. This book provides an overview of HDOs, defines key concepts, and considers what types of data should be collected and how they should be stored and shared. It suggests guidelines for collecting and using data about health providers and practitioners, and it reviews issues relating to the privacy, confidentiality, and security of personal data.

Contact: National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Keck 360, Washington, DC 20001, Telephone: (202) 334-3313 Secondary Telephone: (888) 624-8373 Contact Phone: (800) 624-6242 Fax: (202) 334-2451 E-mail: customer_service@nap.edu Web Site: http://www.nap.edu Available from the website. Document Number: ISBN 0-309-04885-4.

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Keywords: Confidentiality, Information systems, Medical records, Records management

Annotation: This goal of this project was to develop a model referral network and regionalized health care delivery system for children at high risk for hearing, speech, and language disorders resulting from otologic diseases. Project objectives were to: (1) Develop staff in the tri-State area of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee and create and maintain a tri-State referral network; (2) identify contributing factors which inhibit health care delivery to infants and children with otologic problems who live among rural, remote, economically disadvantaged, and culturally diverse population groups; (3) remove barriers to care for infants and children with otologic health care problems; and (4) identify infants and children with hearing disorders living among rural and remote, economically disadvantaged, and culturally diverse population groups. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Technical Information Service, O.S. Department of Commerce, 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA 22312, Telephone: (703) 605-6050 Secondary Telephone: (888) 584-8332 E-mail: customerservice@ntis.gov Web Site: http://www.ntis.gov Document Number: NTIS PB93-161917.

Keywords: Computerized Medial Records, Audiology, Case Management, Computerized Medical Billing, Computers, Coordination of Health Care, Deaf, Hearing Disorders, Indigent Patients, Indigent Patients, Language Disorders, Low income groups, Medicaid, Otology, Regionalized Care, Rural Population, Speech Disorders

Annotation: These proceedings discuss Maternity and Infant Care projects from the standpoint of administrative structure and responsibility, professional health and community health personnel, records and reporting, program evaluation, responsibilities of departments of obstetrics and pediatrics to community and health departments, delivery of prenatal and dental services, patient education delivery, family planning, obstetric anesthesia, fetal intensive care, neonatal intensive care, relationships between obstetrics and pediatrics, pediatric responsibility for the at-risk and non at-risk infant, and pregnant adolescents. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Maternity and Infant Care Projects, Anesthesia, Conferences, Dental care, Family planning, Federal MCH programs, High risk infants, Infant care, Infants, Medical personnel, Medical records, Neonatal intensive care, Obstetrical care, Obstetrics, Patient education, Pediatrics, Pregnant adolescents, Prenatal care, Professional personnel, Program evaluation, Program management