Markle Connecting for Health Collaboration

Better Health Through Information Sharing

Markle Connecting for Health is a public-private collaboration whose goal is to improve people's health and advance the quality of health care in the United States through innovations in information technology. We tackle the challenges of creating a networked health information environment that enables secure and private information sharing to improve the health of all Americans and strengthen the nation’s health care system.

Markle Common Framework

Policy and technology practices that help medical professionals and consumers share personal health information while protecting privacy.

Markle Common Framework  

Health IT & The Recovery Act

Aligning health IT with health care reform begins with setting the right goals for technology development.

Health IT & ARRA  

 

The Markle Connecting for Health Steering Group is comprised of representatives from a broad spectrum of leading health and technology providers and innovators.  The Steering Group has been providing ongoing direction and oversight since its establishment in 2002.

With each phase of work, Markle Connecting for Health convenes new experts from across the health care and technology spectrum into new working groups. Typically, working groups are assembled to tackle a specific aspect of the policy or technical requirements for private and secure health information exchange.