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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.	News releases	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
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
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.	News releases	07/13/2009
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.	News releases	05/25/2009
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.	News releases	04/28/2009
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.	Video, News releases	03/25/2009
Heart Failure Strikes Younger African Americans at the Same Rate as Older Caucasians Treating hypertension and obesity key to heart failure prevention.	News releases	03/18/2009
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.	News releases	03/11/2009
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.	News releases	02/25/2009

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