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.

Markle Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information: Consumer Technical Briefs

This policy brief explores how “Millie”—a 21st Century consumer—would benefit under a Common Framework to help her ...

Markle Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information: Consumer Policy Brief

This policy brief explores how “Millie” — a 21st Century consumer — would benefit under a Common Framework to help her ...

Beyond Consumer Consent: Why We Need a Comprehensive Approach to Privacy in a Networked World

Consumer consent has long been seen as the privacy pillar for networked health information. But a privacy approach that rests solely on ...

Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Health Care: Summary of Organizational and Governance Recommendations

To encourage the government to enable organizational and governance progress as well as the industry to move forward and begin to develop ...

Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Health Care: Summary of Financial Incentives Recommendations

Summary of Financial Incentives Recommendations in Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Health Care: A Preliminary Roadmap from the Nation's Public and Private-Sector Healthcare Leaders.

Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: User's Panel

David Lansky, from Markle Foundation; Mike Stocker, from Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield; Marc Pierson, from Peace Health; and Cynthia Solomon, ...

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: Understanding the VA and the VistA

Lygeia Ricciardi, from Markle Foundation; Virginia S. Price, from U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs; David M. Douglas, from U.S. Dept. of Veterans ...

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 ...