United States: Indian Health Service Innovations Have Helped Reduce Health Disparities ...

United States: Indian Health Service Innovations Have Helped Reduce Health Disparities Affecting American Indian And Alaska Native People Thomas D. Sequist, Theresa Cullen, and Kelly J. Acton, 2011   The Indian Health Service (IHS), a federal health system, cares for 2 million of the country’s 5.2 million American Indian and Alaska Native people. This system has increasingly focused on innovative uses of health information technology and telemedicine, as well as comprehensive, locally...

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