Consumers as Network Participants

This document is part of the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information. The framework ...

Electronic Health Data Exchanges: Patient and Consumer Principles for System Design

Improving health and health care depends upon accurate, timely, understandable, and relevant information in the hands of consumers, patients and ...

Designing the National Health Information Network: Patient and Consumer-focused Principles

Modern health care depends upon accurate, timely, understandable, and relevant information.  Complete and useful information needs to be in ...

David Lansky's Cover Letter to HHS

Dear Dr. Brailer: It has been our privilege to convene the patient and consumer organizations listed below to develop a statement of Patient ...

Letter from the Personal Health Technology Council to the AHIC

To Secretary Leavitt and the Members of the AHIC: We, the members of the Personal Health Technology Council, commend your leadership in ...

Establishing Regional Centers to Assist Providers to Become Meaningful Users of HIT

Markle, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and others draft a description for a program to establish regional centers to assist health care providers seeking to adopt and become meaningful users of health information technology. The statement was provided to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Policy Should Come Before Standards for Consumer Consent Preferences

Markle Foundation recommends a full complement of privacy and information access policies in its response to the Federal health IT office's draft on consumer consent requirements.

Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: When HSAs Meet PHRs

This presentation describes how information can empower consumers to make the appropriate choices for better health and cost savings. Personal ...

Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: User-Centered Design

Steve Downs, from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Holly Massett, from National Cancer Institute; Patti Brennan, from University of ...

Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: PHRs 101

This presentation by David Lansky, PhD, and Josh Lemieux of Markle Foundation, and Danny Sands, MD, of Cisco Systems, provides a basic ...