Markle In the News

New alliance plans to build, certify, and deploy a national infrastructure for health information sharing that leverages the Markle Common Framework.

Zoë Baird, Markle President, reflects on ways Americans can use technology to create jobs.

The Markle Foundation has announced that Debora L. Spar has joined its Board of Directors. Dr. Spar is the current President of Barnard College, a private liberal arts college for women in New York City.

Peter Levin, Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs, credited Markle and the collaborative process.

Markle’s President, Zoë Baird Budinger, and Cisco’s Chief Strategy Officer, Padmasree Warrior, discuss "Science, Technology, and US Competitiveness."

In a podcast, Howard Anderson of HealthcareInfoSecurity interviews Markle’s Laura Bailyn, Senior Director, Health Initiatives, about the newly release Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework Policies in Practice for Health Information Sharing.

The Markle Foundation has published an addendum to its 2006 Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange (Markle Common Framework), updating a range of issues with information gleaned from the rapid changes made on the health IT front over the past few years.

 

This article describes the release of a new privacy and security instructional guide unveiled by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.  It also mentions the release of the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework Policies in Practice for Health Information Sharing (Policies in Practice), which addresses "a range of critical health information sharing implementation needs identified by experts working in the field."  These Policies in Practice support the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Information Exchange, a comprehensive approach for private and secure information sharing based on Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs), which was originally released in 2006.

The Markle Foundation has issued a new resource to help organizations implementing health IT navigate governance, individual consent, procurement and other areas related to secure information sharing.

Shannon Brownlee references a recent Markle survey in a Newsweek article about the doctor-patient relationship.