Automated Patient Linking for Electronic Health Record and Child Welfare Databases.

There are 427,000 children in protective custody in the United States. A lack of integration between the child welfare data system and electronic health record systems complicates the communication of critical health history details to caregivers. We created and evaluated automated ten custom algorithms linking these data.

Improving Information Sharing for Youth in Foster Care.

There are ∼443 000 children in child protective custody (ie, foster care) in the United States. Children in protective custody have more medical, behavioral, and developmental problems that require health care services than the general population. These health problems are compounded by poor information exchange impeding care coordination.

Implementation of a Regional Perinatal Data Repository from Clinical and Billing Records.

Objectives To describe the implementation of the first phase of a regional perinatal data repository and to provide a roadmap for others to navigate technical, privacy, and data governance concerns in implementing similar resources. Methods Our implementation integrated regional physician billing records with maternal and infant electronic health records from an academic delivery hospital. These records, representing births during 2013-2015, constituted a data core supporting linkage to additional ancillary data sets.