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Empowering Black Patients to Take a More Active Role in Their Health Care

February 18, 2010 | Program Result Report

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine tested whether using hand-held computers to answer questions about their health status empowered African-American patients to take a more active role in their health care.

Connecting for Health: Accelerating the Effective Use of Information Technology in Health Care

December 2, 2008 | Program Result Report

Connecting for Health works with more than 100 collaborators from government, health care, industry and consumer groups to establish policy guidelines and technical solutions to pave the way for nationwide electronic health information exchange.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Patient-focused Health IT

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Empowering Black Patients to Take a More Active Role in Their Health Care

Connecting for Health: Accelerating the Effective Use of Information Technology in Health Care