Advance Readings
Prior to the Event we are asking participants to become familiar with the following materials to facilitate creative dialog and exploration.
Data about children with special health care needs
Kidsdata.org, a Foundation-operated website, provides a range of information about children with special health care needs, including statistics on demographics, access to care, health insurance, and the impact on children and families.
Articles about children with special health care needs
Browse through the Reading Room on kidsdata.org to find articles on a variety of topics related to children with special needs.
Transforming the U.S. Child Health System
This article, by Neal Halfon, Helen DuPlessis and Moira Inkelas of the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at UCLA, offers a vision and rationale for reforming the child health system. The article touches on many of the components that affect the systems of care for children with special health care needs.
Creating Innovation: Elegant Solutions to Complex Problems Through InnovationQuest™
Reducing the time it takes to understand complex issues and to make important decisions is a critical priority. Suppose you could gather a team of people together to solve some of your most complex and difficult problems in a week or two rather than a few months. You can. The purpose of this white paper is to explain how InnovationQuest Workshops from InnovationLabs do just that.
Designing the American Heart Association's "Health Coach System" through online and face-to-face collaboration
Not long ago the
American Heart Association approached a team from Stanford University
School of Medicine with the intention of changing that. The Stanford
Cardiac
Rehabilitation
Program team worked with InnovationLabs to begin developing a national
education program.