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News & Events

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

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   

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 ...
Categories: Health    Tags: meaningful use

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 ...
Categories: Health    Tags: privacy

Counterterrorism 2.0: Using IT to Connect the Dots

February 23, 2010

Membes of the Markle Task Force on National Security will participate in a panel discussion focused on the role of IT in the intelligence community.

Categories: National Security   

EastWest Institute's 7th Annual Worldwide Security Conference

February 18, 2010

Stefaan Verhulst, Markle's Chief of Research, attends "International Pathways to Cybersecurity," to participate in discussion on the practicalities of meeting new security threat. 

Categories: National Security   

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 ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: information sharing