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News & Events

Recent news items, media releases and events related to Markle's activities are included on the list below.

Letter tells CMS to set more specific EHR goals

March 18, 2010
To successfully implement the broad use of electronic health records, the CMS needs to make its health goals and targets more explicit, ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

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 ...
Categories: Health    Tags: meaningful use

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 ...
Categories: Health    Tags: meaningful use

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 ...
Categories: Health    Tags: collaborative comments

Broad Collaboration Agrees on Priorities for ‘Meaningful Use’ Success

March 16, 2010

More than 50 health care organizations recommend priorities to HHS regarding the administration of Medicare and Medicaid subsidies to doctors and hospitals for Meaningful Use of health IT.

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 ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

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 ...
Categories: Health    Tags: survey

2010 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition

March 3, 2010

Josh Lemieux, Markle's Director of Personal Health Technology, presents "Physician and Patient Views on Using PHRs: National Survey Results.

Categories: Health   

Doctors and Patients Perceive Potential Value of Electronic PHRs

March 3, 2010

Presenting a pair of coordinated surveys, Markle and the AMA show that patients and physicians hold both similar and contrasting views about personal health records.

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 ...
Categories: Health