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HHS, Emdeon partnership provides EHRs to underserved areas

Electronic health record vendor Emdeon and the Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Minority Health have launched an initiative wherein the latter will donate EHR software and

HHS, AHIMA to bring EHR training to rural and underserved areas

Discounted electronic health record software and free health IT training for providers are the crux of a collaboration announced this week between the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS),

HHS rolls out EHR adoption program for underserved areas

The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Minority Health--working with Quest Diagnostics and its subsidiary MedPlus--rolled out a new initiative last week to help improve

HHS aims for racial equity in healthcare

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to study the causes of racial inequities in healthcare delivery, to improve its hiring of minority staff and beef up its translation services for

EHRs can boost health of low-income, minority populations

Among the many goals of the federal EHR incentive program is to help improve health in low-income and minority communities that traditionally have been underserved but suffer from disproportionately