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Ethnic Disparities
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HHS agenda looks to IT for self-management, patient engagement
HHS' newest 10-year health goals for the country, Healthy People 2020, focus on prevention, shared decisionmaking between patients and providers, personalized self-management of health conditions
IT resistance by high-volume Medicaid providers could increase care disparities, HIT Policy Committee told
IT is supposed to help lessen healthcare disparities, but if Medicaid-dependent clinics don't adopt EMRs and other health IT, disparities between rich and poor could widen, one advocacy organization
Meaningful use and health disparities
As HHS officials race to finalize 2011 regulations for meaningful use of health IT, the advisory Health IT Policy Committee has been pondering how to use health IT to reduce racial and ethnic
HHS official says HIT can reduce ethnic care disparities
An HHS official told a gathering on Capitol Hill that he believes health information technology can help close some of the significant racial and regional disparities in care that currently exist in
