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Markle Connecting for Health Prototype Successfully Moved Electronic Health Information Among Medical Record Systems in Three States on Three Independent Networks

February 8, 2006
NEW YORK, NY—Markle Connecting for Health announced today that its three-state prototype has achieved an important first milestone toward ...

Opportunities for CMS Actions in Support of Personal Health Records

August 31, 2005
CMS is in a unique position to acquire and distribute some of the data— in a structured, beneficiary-controlled way— to enable ...

Letters in support of the nomination of Carol Diamond to the American Health Information Community

August 5, 2005
The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Suite ...
Categories: Health    Tags: policy

Markle Connecting for Health Statement on HHS Plans to Enhance Electronic Exchange of Health Information

June 6, 2005
NEW YORK, NY—"Secretary Mike Leavitt has moved us much closer to the day when every patient in the United States will be able to ...
Categories: Health    Tags: AHIC, governance, health IT, information sharing

Prototype for a Nationwide Health Information Exchange Launched by Connecting for Health

June 1, 2005
NEW YORK, NY—Markle Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative of more than 100 diverse organizations, announced today that it ...

Leading Health Care and Information Technology Groups Endorse Common Framework for Health Information Exchange to Support Improvements in Health and Healthcare

January 18, 2005
New York, NY and Washington, DC—Thirteen major health and information technology organizations, in an unprecedented joint collaboration, ...
Categories: Health   

Connecting for Health Report Analyzes Business Case for Adoption of Health IT Systems

October 22, 2004
New York—Connecting for Health … A Public-Private Collaborative today released Financial, Legal and Organizational Approaches to ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, health IT, incentives

Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Health Care

August 1, 2004
Markle Connecting for Health's Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare calls for all stakeholders from across the ...

Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare: A Preliminary Roadmap

July 1, 2004

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.

Flying Blind

July 1, 2004
The patient came into Indianapolis’ Wishard Memorial Hospital complaining of crushing chest pain, but was unable to give ER doctors his ...
Categories: Health    Tags: case study, health IT, medical errors, Roadmap