Health Information Needs for Child-in-Care.

When a child is taken into care the State is legally required to provide healthcare. Six forms were reviewed by medical care providers, foster parents and government social workers to understand their health information needs in caring and planning for child-in-care. The qualitative study used a sociotechnical systems framework and NVivo 10 for encoding. Interview findings include that the forms, if completed and available, meet most basic health information needs with additional forms used for complex health needs. The majority of participants indicate interest in electronic options. Focus groups will enable further study.