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Health System Reform and Antitrust Law This policy brief addresses antitrust considerations that arise in health system transformation aimed at producing greater clinical integration and greater levels of information about the quality and cost of care.	Issue and policy briefs	11/04/2009
Evidence of an Emerging Digital Divide Among Hospitals That Care for the Poor Some hospitals that disproportionately care for poor patients are falling behind in adopting electronic health records (EHRs). A central policy question is whether health information technology investments prompted by the 2009 federal stimulus... Published In: Health Affairs (Web Exclusive)	Journal articles	10/26/2009
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.	News releases	10/19/2009
Getting Past Denial - The High Cost of Health Care in the United States In this article, the authors discuss regional variations in health care spending. Differences in regional health accounts for only a small part of total cost variation, suggesting that health care costs can be contained by emulating regions with low costs and high... Published In: The New England Journal of Medicine	Journal articles	09/21/2009
New Report from the IOM Recommends More Detailed Categories for Race, Ethnicity and English-Language Proficiency Data A report from the IOM recommends HHS develop nationally standardized lists for granular ethnicity categories and spoken and written languages.	Stories and articles	09/04/2009
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.	News releases	08/25/2009
Case Study: Cutting the Wait for an Interpreter (from Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There—Quality Improvement) Add to my presentation E-mail Published In: Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There	Slides	06/30/2009
The Power of Community Health Workers The Power of Community Health Workers (from Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There—Quality Improvement) Add to my presentation E-mail Published In: Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There	Slides	06/30/2009
New Strategies to Get Minorities to Participate in Clinical Trials The Endocrine Society developed recommendations designed to increase minority participation in clinical research undertaken to discover new biomarkers of disease and to develop medications and technologies to treat illnesses.	Grant Results Reports	06/03/2009
IOM Holds a Roundtable on Health Disparities In 2006, the Institute of Medicine convened a two-year Roundtable on Health Disparities to promote dialogue and discussion about disparities in the quality of and access to health care in the United States.	Grant Results Reports	05/11/2009

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