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Telehealth Policy Solutions for Children with Complex Medical Needs

by: Jacob Vigil and Jenny Kattlove, The Children’s Partnership; Rebecca Litman and James Marcin, MD, MPH, University of California, Davis, Children’s Hospital; Christine Calouro and Mei Wa Kwong, Center for Connected Health Policy

The authors provide policy recommendations to overcome barriers to wider adoption of telehealth in this fact sheet.

For a detailed account of telehealth successes for children with special health care needs, the barriers to its use, and policy solutions, view the full report.

Fact Sheet

Associated Grant

A Roundtable Process Plan to Create Systems-Level Change for Young Adult Patients

Generation Patient

This small grant supports Generation Patient’s planning process to create a Roundtable on Young Adults with Chronic Medical Conditions.

Lost in Transition: Gaps in Care as Teens with Special Health Care Needs Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care Systems

University of Chicago

This grant will support the first-ever population-level analysis of the experience of transition for CYSHCN covered by Medicaid. The research team will produce national estimates of age-related changes in outcomes such as Medicaid access, primary care availability, and health care and long-term care usage and spending.

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