1. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Initiative distributed $93.5 million to 29 research networks to help learn how urban health networks can improve outcomes and reduce costs for certain diseases.
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2. Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., has received a $3 million grant to expand a training program for anesthesiologists in Kenya.
3. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration awarded the Philadelphia Pediatric Device Consortium a $1.5 million grant to help develop pediatric medical devices.
4. The University of California, Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement’s California Health eQuality program gave $775,000 in grants to four rural hospital information exchanges to improve healthcare coordination across the state.
5. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Rural Health Policy have awarded three grants to different organizations and programs to help rural communities develop and adopt health IT practices.
6. Duke University in Durham, N.C., awarded a grant to a group of South Carolina hospitals to develop the Clinical Data Warehouse, a statewide database containing health records of 2.3 million patients to help identify best practices and improve care.
7. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded $1.1 million in grants to seven medical practices in New Jersey to increase and improve their primary care capacity.
8. HHS granted $750,000 to UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento, Calif., to launch a neonatal telehealth program to improve newborn care in rural areas.
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