Tag: EHR/PHR

As we study the enormous cultural shifts taking place in the current health care environment, fueled in particular by consumer demands to assert ...

Helen Pfister and Susan Ingargiola, Manatt Health Solutions, reference Markle’s The Architecture for Privacy in a Networked Health Information Environment, part of Connecting for Health's Common Framework, in a recent article about trust in the age of electronic health information.

Harley Geiger, Center for Democracy and Technology, uses findings from a recent Markle survey to support the statement that there is a general agreement on the sensitivity of identifiable health information and individuals should know when such information is breached.

The HHS looks for simple ways to educate the public on health IT issues after a recent Markle survey showed that only 14% of the public was familiar with the meaningful use incentive program.

GovInfoSecurity.com references the Blue Button concept, which Markle developed in collaboration with other groups to call for a set of privacy and security policies based on the Markle Common Framework.

IBM’s global health care ambassador, Lorraine Fernandes, discusses a Markle letter submitted to the Department of Commerce in February 2011 expressing the importance of FIPs in today’s society.

Markle collaborators identify strategic opportunities for patient engagement, care coordination, quality reporting, and privacy in Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use incentives program.

AMA president, Cecil B. Wilson, MD, cites Markle survey results in discussing the emergence of EHRs and how physicians are adapting to the technological change.

HealthAffairs invites Carol Diamond to comment on the opportunities and challenges awaiting David Blumenthal’s successor at ONC.

The New York Times cites Markle survey and others in discussing the emergence of PHRs and apps for smartphones to help consumers manage their health.