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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).

Feds received 2,700 comment letters on meaningful use and standards rules

March 17, 2010
The comment period on the proposed meaningful use rule and the interim standards final rule closed Monday. On Wednesday, federal officials said ...
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Relax Meaningful Use… but Not Too Much

March 17, 2010
Reading through the headlines, the press releases and checking in on today’s HIT Policy Committee meeting, it appears that the over-riding ...
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Health Care Collaborative Offers Comments to HHS on 'Meaningful Use'

March 17, 2010
Since the HITECH Act became law as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act last year, health care organizations and those who do ...
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NHIN Direct: Open Healthcare Records and Government as a Platform

March 11, 2010
In my advocacy around Government 2.0, I've been focused on the idea that government should act like a platform provider rather than a ...
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Video News: Josh Lemieux on the Markle Foundation's IT survey

March 4, 2010
Josh Lemieux, director of personal health technology for the Markle Foundation, talks with Modern Healthcare editor David Burda about the ...
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Investigations with Impact

March 1, 2010
Two months after its launch, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund published the story of Benjamin French, a 12-year-old from Michigan who was ...
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Health IT Standards Committee: Clinical Operations group seeks specificity in standards

February 24, 2010
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on ...
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Security expert: Obama order resembles controversial Bush-era data-mining tool

February 24, 2010
The Obama administration has called for the development of a computer network that one security expert said on Tuesday resembles a controversial ...
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Why information sharing is not always enough

February 17, 2010
Sounds of anger and signs of action are following the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day. We are lucky it is an averted ...
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Connecting the Dots and the Christmas Plot

January 25, 2010
“We slipped up.”  That’s what Patrick F. Kennedy, the Undersecretary of State for Management, said at a Senate hearing ...
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