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News & Events

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

Health Care Stakeholders Struggle to Define 'Meaningful Use'

May 13, 2009
Health care stakeholders are scrambling to help the federal government define key health information technology terms used in the American ...
Categories: Health    Tags: meaningful use

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

Getting Health IT Right Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

April 30, 2009

Markle Connecting for Health hosted a discussion forum on strategic priorities for the health IT provisions of the economic stimulus law.

Categories: Health   

Markle v. HIMSS: Differing Views of “Meaningful Use” and “Certification”

April 30, 2009
The forthcoming definition of the “meaningful use” of health information technology will set the direction of the Obama ...
Categories: Health    Tags: certification, meaningful use

U.S. health data czar sees role for government hand

April 30, 2009
"It is clear that this field has not advanced (enough) ... when left exclusively to the private sector so there is a public role," ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

Meaningful Investment of $19 Billion on Health Information Technology

April 30, 2009

Markle Connecting for Health brings together health and IT leaders with government and policy experts to help define a framework for “meaningful use” and “certified or qualified” electronic health records.

Markle Special Collection of Policy Publications Now Available at PolicyArchive.org

April 27, 2009
NEW YORK, NY—The Markle Foundation today announces the launch of the Markle Special Collection of public policy research documents at the ...
Categories: General Markle, Past Initiatives   

PolicyArchive Launches New Online Portal for National Security and Health Research Papers

April 23, 2009
LOS ANGELES, CA—PolicyArchive.org, the leading digital library of public policy research developed by the Center for Governmental Studies ...
Categories: General Markle