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Markle In the News

Markle In the News

Markle In the News includes articles, op-eds, blog commentary, and news items related to Markle's collaborative work.  The items are listed in reverse chronological order (newest first).

What Healthcare Could Learn from Amazon

August 8, 2008
We take for granted that UPS will track and send an e-mail alert about a package's delivery status. Or when Visa lets us know when we've ...
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Health Privacy: One Step Closer

August 5, 2008
So, the Massachusetts legislature wrapped up the FY07-FY08 session early Friday morning. The wonky-hot legislative item that AAC was watching ...
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Google, Microsoft Back Online Health Records Privacy Framework

August 4, 2008
Nearly half of Americans are interested in using Web-based tools to collect and manage their personal health information, but 90% are wary of ...
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Practice Fusion and "Freeconomics"

July 26, 2008
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, studies and writes about the human condition in the information age. The world that we ...
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PHRs - beyond the standard design

July 22, 2008
Patti Brennan, a nursing colleague of long-standing, is National Program Director, and gave the closing keynote at the SINI2008 conference last ...
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More on the Markle framework: Patti Brennan's perspective

July 16, 2008
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is the Director of Project Health Design. She made the following comments in response to the Markle ...
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Software companies back online health records privacy framework

July 1, 2008
With the dawn of new information-oriented and software services on the web, many Americans are interested in using web based tools for ...
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Connecting for Health: Another wave in the shift to consumer controlled health information

July 1, 2008
The recent announcement of the Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information by the Connecting for Health collaboration lead by the ...
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Are Privacy Standards Enough to Push Electronic Health Records?

June 30, 2008
Google, Microsoft, WebMD, Dossia and other major technology providers in the burgeoning PHR (personal health record) niche are all hopeful that ...
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New Standards for Digital Medical Record Released

June 27, 2008
A coalition of employers, health insurers and health care providers released a set of policy and technical guidelines June 25 they say will ...
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