Children’s Information Tennessee (CIT) is a multi-department initiative linking demographic and program participation information on children with special healthcare needs in a central database system managed by the Department of Health. The departments of Health, Children’s Services, Human Services, and Education and TennCare have entered into a formal agreement to provide information on their clients to the Health Department managed CIT system. CIT provides the information infrastructure for two initiatives: care coordination and research.
In order to demonstrate the utility of the CIT linked data, two studies using the CIT data will be reported. The first study examines children receiving multiple services. Of the 80,000 children in CIT with program participation information, 1,300 have received services from three or more providers. The demographic, diagnostic, program participation and related services will be examined. The second study examines these factors, newborn screening results and follow-up services in a birth cohort drawn from the vital records birth records.
Learning Objectives: Session participants will be able to: 1. Describe the groups sampled for the studies. 2. Describe the data sets linked in the studies. 3. Articulate the benefits of using linked data sets.
Keywords: Children With Special Needs, Internet
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Tennessee Department of Health
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: Employee, Tennessee Department of Health