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“Viewpoints” | Health Information Technology: A Tool for Health Equity and System Transformation

By: Russell Davis, Ruth Perot

In these unprecedented times of promise and peril, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has arisen to transform health and health care in the United States. Responding to the nation’s economic crisis, President Barack Obama has exercised bold leadership in advancing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in February 2009. ARRA makes significant resources available for health care support, redirection, and retooling. Since comprehensive health care reform appears to have gained a prominent place on the nation’s decision making agenda for the ...