title: Use of qualitative methods and user-centered design to develop customized health information technology tools within federally qualified health centers to keep children insured.
abstract: Lack of health insurance negatively impacts children's health. Despite federal initiatives to expand children's coverage and accelerate state outreach efforts, millions of US children remain uninsured or experience frequent gaps in coverage. Most current efforts to enroll and retain eligible children in public insurance programs take place outside of the health care system. This study is a partnership between patients' families, medical informaticists, federally qualified health center (FQHC) staff, and researchers to build and test information technology tools to help FQHCs reach uninsured children and those at risk for losing coverage.
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University (Drs DeVoe and Cohen and Mss Angier, Likumahuwa, Hall, and Keller); and OCHIN, Inc (Drs DeVoe, Nelson, and Burdick and Ms Dickerson) The authors are grateful to the clinic staff and families who contributed ideas and time to this study.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: DeVoe
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Angier
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Likumahuwa
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Kay
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dickerson
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Burdick
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States