Resources

Policy Brief on the Markle Connecting for Health Policies in Practice on The Download Capability.

Nearly 50 organizations declare their support for a set of privacy and security practices to help people download their health records.

The Markle Foundation, the Center for American Progress, and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings emphasize the importance of new federal rules on health information technology.

Comments emphasize that government-sanctioned testing and certification have important roles as well as limitations in achieving the objectives of the public investments in health IT.

Leaders at Markle, the Center for American Progress, and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings call upon the Government to retain core requirements in its final rule for health IT investments.

More than 50 health care organizations recommend priorities to HHS regarding the administration of Medicare and Medicaid subsidies to doctors and hospitals for Meaningful Use of health IT.

These collaborative comments propose modest but important modifications to the Interim Final Rule drafted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

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.

More than 50 organizations join to submit public comments regarding Stage 1 of the health IT Incentives 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.