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Executive Summary for the final report of the Working Group on Policies for Electronic Information Sharing Between Doctors and Patients.

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

Includes outlines of guiding principles and rationale for a health information infrastructure, linking, applications, and data standards.

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

A doctor I see for my thyroid tumor recently made a mistake. While the recommendation of the specialist, an endocrinologist, in this case didn’t cause me to lose a limb or seriously jeopardize my health, the experience did give me first-hand insight of how easy medical mistakes happen when doctors don’t have access to information when making decisions.

My son Alex suffers from hydrocephalus, an uncommon condition that forces an abnormal accumulation of fluid inside his brain. His condition is treated with insertions of shunts into his skull to let the excess fluid drain. If the shunts should fail, Alex could lapse into a coma and even die. Quick and appropriate intervention for my son and other hydrocephalus patients is critical.

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.

The overwhelming message we distilled from this overview is that it is not necessarily the technical roadblocks that have most limited ...

There has been an increasing recognition by both the public and private sectors of the ability to improve the quality and safety of ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Markle Connecting for Health, an extraordinary collaboration of more than 100 public and private stakeholders representing ...