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Oct 26, 2009	Hospitals That Care for Poor Patients Face Digital Divide Without Federal Help Hospitals that serve a disproportionately large share of poor patients are lagging behind other hospitals in adopting electronic health records, leading to a digital divide that could exacerbate health care disparities, researchers report.
Oct 19, 2009	Finding Answers Awards More Than $1.5 Million to Evaluate Interventions Aimed at Reducing Gaps in Health Care Among U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups Organizations are working to eliminate racial and ethnic health care disparities in their communities.
Aug 25, 2009	RWJF Selects 15 Hospitals to Participate in National Quality Improvement Collaboratives RWJF announced the selection of 15 hospitals to participate in two new quality improvement programs as part of its ambitious Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.
Jul 13, 2009	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Trustee, Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., Nominated for Surgeon General of the United States Nominee praised for her expertise, credentials, judgment and passionate commitment to health care equity and social justice.
May 25, 2009	How Fast and What Type of Imaging Elderly Low-Back Pain Patients Get Linked to Patient/Physician Traits Not Clinical Indications Center for Studying Health System Change study shows unwarranted overuse of x-rays and other imaging for uncomplicated low-back pain.
Apr 28, 2009	Albuquerque Coalition 4 Healthcare Quality Joins Effort to Dramatically Improve the Quality of Health Care Initiative puts Albuquerque at forefront of health quality reform movement.
Mar 25, 2009	U.S. Hospital Use of Electronic Health Records Abysmally Low Only a tiny fraction of U.S. hospitals have full health information technology systems in place to improve how they deliver care, says a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Mar 18, 2009	Heart Failure Strikes Younger African Americans at the Same Rate as Older Caucasians Treating hypertension and obesity key to heart failure prevention.
Mar 11, 2009	RWJF Announces Hospitals Chosen to Participate in New Nurse-Led Quality Improvement Collaborative RWJF announced the selection of 16 hospitals to participate in the first two cohorts of the Aligning Forces for Quality: Transforming Care at the Bedside Collaborative.
Feb 25, 2009	Taming Wide Variations in Spending Key to Health Reform Medicare spending estimates illustrate how huge inefficiencies in the U.S. health care system are hamstringing the nation's ability to expand access to care, according to an analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Feb 18, 2009	"Pay Doctors for Value, Not Volume," Urges National Health Care Quality Coalition As federal and state government officials seek ways to address escalating health care costs, a national health care quality coalition urged major reforms in the way Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans pay primary care physicians.
Feb 17, 2009	Scope of Care Coordination Daunting for Physicians Treating Medicare Patients Typical primary care physician must coordinate care with 229 other physicians in 117 practices.

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