This Highlight focuses on how North Carolina and Pennsylvania are testing how well the Children's Electronic Health Record (EHR) Format's requirements support the provision of primary care to children and how readily the requirements can be incorporated into existing EHRs.

This implementation guide helps states implement or improve care management entities (CMEs), which are designed to coordinate services provided by the many state agencies that serve youth with complex behavioral health needs.

This Evaluation Highlight focuses on how six States are using quality reports to draw attention to State- or practice-level performance on quality measures in order to drive improvements in the quality of care for children.

Policies promoting widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) are premised on the hope that they can improve the coordination of care. Yet little is known about whether and how physician practices use current EMRs to facilitate coordination.

Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) have a long history of conducting research in community clinical settings, demonstrating a possible approach to executing multiple research projects over time in broad and varied settings. PBRNs also are uniquely structured and increasingly involved in...

There is emerging consensus that enhanced inter-professional teamwork is necessary for the effective and efficient delivery of primary care, but there is less practical information specific to primary care available to guide practices on how to better work as teams.

Oklahoma’s Medicaid managed care 1115 waiver program, SoonerCare, has been through many changes in the last 15 years, including the end of fully capitated managed care in 2003 and expansion statewide of the SoonerCare Choice enhanced primary care case management program. Mathematica’s...