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News & Events

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

Social Networking Breathes New Life Into Info Sharing

May 19, 2009
Information sharing has moved up and down the food chain of important federal initiatives since becoming a critical imperative in the aftermath ...

Obama's emerging IT agenda could mean big changes

May 14, 2009
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s vision for technology was off the charts of anyone’s prior expectations. A ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: technology

Intelligence Community Wrestles With Web 2.0 Tools for Information Sharing

May 14, 2009
Where others see the colors orange and red when it comes to homeland security threats, Chris Rasmussen sees purple. Rasmussen is a ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: information sharing

Sweating the Details on Health Technology Policy

May 12, 2009
Some of the nation’s fine minds in medicine and technology have huddled, attended hearings and produced position papers in the last few ...
Categories: Health    Tags: health IT, meaningful use

The Markle Foundation’s work on Meaningful Use

May 10, 2009
Last night I posted my own thoughts on the definition of “meaningful use,” a term that will have significant impact on our ...
Categories: Health    Tags: meaningful use

An Open Letter to the New National Coordinator for Health IT: Part 3 -- Certification As The Elephant in Health IT's Living Room

May 8, 2009
In the first and second parts of this series we talked about how and why there is no universal definition for the term "EHR." Instead ...
Categories: Health    Tags: certification, EHR/PHR

AMA can help you prepare for the health IT future

May 4, 2009
It was a typically cold and wet spring day more than nine years ago when I entered the e-health world. As a solo practitioner, I wanted to ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, health IT

Timely Report Published

May 3, 2009
Healthcare leaders at a forum hosted by the Markle Foundation on April 30th discussed the just released 2009 report “Achieving the Health ...
Categories: Health    Tags: health care reform

Blumenthal Speaks Part II: He's Ready

May 2, 2009
Speaking at the Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health conference, David Blumenthal, the national health IT coordinator, reported that ...
Categories: Health    Tags: health IT

Interesting week of interactions

May 2, 2009
It has been an interesting week for me, participating in three different events in the last seven days. With HIMSS at the beginning of the ...
Categories: Health    Tags: consumers, health IT