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KIDSNET is Rhode Island’s confidential, computerized child health information system. KIDSNET serves families, pediatric providers, and public health programs like the Immunization Program and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children). The purpose of KIDSNET is to help make sure that all children in Rhode Island are as healthy as possible by getting the right health screening and preventive care at the right time.

KIDSNET started collecting information from all births in Rhode Island on January 1, 1997. KIDSNET also obtains information about children born out of state if they see a Rhode Island participating doctor or receive services at a KIDSNET participating program.

As of January 2005, KIDSNET also began collecting immunizations given to children born before 1997, up through age 18. KIDSNET contains only recent immunizations given for this age group.

About 13,000 children are born in the state every year. As of April 2007, KIDSNET had information from 204,114 children in the system. Here are more facts about KIDSNET.

Our mission:

KIDSNET facilitates the collection and appropriate sharing of health data with healthcare providers, parents, maternal and child health programs, and other child service providers for the provision of timely and appropriate preventive health services and follow up.