Health Crisis on the Net - How We are Fixing the Health Care System

This report discusses the problem online health users face due to the overwhelming number of listings provided by search engines and how this is ...

Is Overreliance on Technical Standards Undermining Efforts to Use IT to Transform the U.S. Health System?

Considers whether efforts on technology standards absent alignment of policy objectives and financial incentives is "magical thinking" ...

Response to New Federal Health Data Breach Notification Requirements

Markle, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and others comment on the new federal health data breach notification provisions to be ...

Objective Standards Needed for Evaluating Information Breaches

Markle Connecting for Health and the Center for Democracy and Technology focus on the need for objective standards for judging whether a data breach presents significant risk.

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.

Markle Director Says PHR Fragmentation Is a Problem

Lansky addresses privacy and security concerns, PHR accuracy, solutions, and technical standards.  

Health IT Investments that Improve Health Care

This brief outlines critical attributes and expectations for health IT investments. 

Standards Within the Context of the Health IT Initiative

Carol Diamond, MD, MPH testifies before the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) Subcommittee on Standards.

Achieving the Health IT Objectives of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Markle proposes a set of principles for getting health IT right under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Collaborative Comments on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program

The release of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ (CMS) incentive program for ...