Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare: A Preliminary Roadmap

Markle Connecting for Health's Preliminary Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare calls for all stakeholders from across the healthcare industry to work together to build a health information infrastructure that would improve patient care, reduce medical error and lower costs while protecting patient privacy and details specific actions the public and private sectors can take to accelerate the adoption of information technology in healthcare.

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Improving Access and Protecting Privacy

Janlori Goldman, from Health Privacy Project; Alan Westin, from Columbia University; Harriet Pearson, from IBM; and Jodi Daniel, from the Office ...

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Consumer Empowerment

David Lansky, from Markle Foundation; Kelly Cronin, from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Kathleen ...

Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Health Care

Markle Connecting for Health's Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare calls for all stakeholders from across the ...

Executive Summary: Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Health Care

Executive Summary for Markle Connecting for Health's Preliminary Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare (Roadmap). The ...

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 ...

The Right General Direction

More than 50 organizations submit public comments to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding interim final standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the health IT Incentives program.

Collaborative Statement on Proposed Regulations on Meaningful Use and Standards for the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program

The Markle Foundation, the Center for American Progress, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings and three dozen diverse leaders in the health sector send a letter commending federal agencies for their work drafting proposed health IT "meaningful use" regulations and standards.

Linking Health Care Information: Proposed Methods for Improving Care and Protecting Privacy

Introduction This document outlines a strategy for linking patient information across multiple sites of care, developed by the Working Group ...

Comments on the Office of the National Coordinator's Preliminary Definition of 'Meaningful Use'

Markle, the Center for American Progress, Brookings, and others respond to first draft of the 'meaningful use' definition issued by the HIT Policy Subcommittee of the US Department of Health and Human Services.