
Racial and ethnic healthcare disparities are differences in care or outcomes of minority patients that have nothing to do with the patients' underlying medical conditions.

Racial and ethnic healthcare disparities are differences in care or outcomes of minority patients that have nothing to do with the patients' underlying medical conditions.

Backed by strong private sector initiative and bipartisan leadership from the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, health information technology (HIT) is emerging as an important means of improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of the nation's healthcare system.