Responding to the needs of health information sharing efforts, Markle Connecting for Health has released Policies in Practice resources to support implementation.
Our mission is to advance health information technology to improve people’s lives. Best practices must improve health, protect privacy, increase cost-effectiveness, and encourage innovation.
Markle’s work in national security focuses on how best to mobilize information and technology to advance national security while protecting civil liberties.
The Markle Foundation has published an addendum to its 2006 Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange (Markle Common Framework), updating a range of issues with information gleaned from the rapid changes made on the health IT front over the past few years.
This article describes the release of a new privacy and security instructional guide unveiled by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. It also mentions the release of the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework Policies in Practice for Health Information Sharing (Policies in Practice), which addresses "a range of critical health information sharing implementation needs identified by experts working in the field." These Policies in Practice support the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Information Exchange, a comprehensive approach for private and secure information sharing based on Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs), which was originally released in 2006.
The Markle Foundation has issued a new resource to help organizations implementing health IT navigate governance, individual consent, procurement and other areas related to secure information sharing.
Ten years after 9/11, it is still worth examining progress in protecting the nation against terrorism and other threats to our national security that we could not have imagined in decades past.
Markle Connecting for Health collaborators respond to the Department of Health and Human Services' request for information on the PCAST report on health IT.
New federal rules on financial incentives for health information technology are an important window of opportunity for providers, hospitals, and patients.