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News & Events

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

Americans See Access to Their Medical Information As a Way to Improve Quality, Reduce Health Care Costs

December 6, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC—Americans overwhelmingly want to have electronic copies of their medical records and believe that having greater access to ...

Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age Releases Third Report, 'Mobilizing Information to Prevent Terrorism: Accelerating Development of a Trusted Information Sharing Environment'

July 13, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC—The Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age released its third report today with ...
Categories: National Security   

Report Outlines Approach for Secure Online Access to Patient Prescription Drug Records in Time of Disaster

June 13, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC—With the nation bracing for the 2006 hurricane season, the Markle Foundation today released Lessons from KatrinaHealth, a ...

Suzanne Nora Johnson Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation

May 22, 2006
NEW YORK, NY—The Markle Foundation announced today that Suzanne Nora Johnson, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., has joined the ...
Categories: General Markle   

Health and Technology Leaders Release the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Initiating Private and Secure Health Information Sharing

April 6, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC—Markle Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative of more than 100 organizations, today released its Common ...

Markle Connecting for Health Prototype Successfully Moved Electronic Health Information Among Medical Record Systems in Three States on Three Independent Networks

February 8, 2006
NEW YORK, NY—Markle Connecting for Health announced today that its three-state prototype has achieved an important first milestone toward ...

Chinese Turn to Internet for Entertainment and Connecting With Others, as Number of Broadband Connections Increase in China

November 17, 2005
NEW YORK, NY—The ways in which the Chinese internet users utilize and think about the Internet are described in a public opinion survey ...
Categories: General Markle   

Americans Support Online Personal Health Records; Patient Privacy and Control Over Their Own Information Are Crucial to Acceptance

October 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, DC—The American public believes strongly that electronic medical records can make the difference between life and death in ...

Q&A with David Lansky

October 1, 2005
  David Lansky, Executive Director of the Markle Foundation, explains why interoperability is essential for improving the quality ...
Categories: Health   

www.katrinahealth.org Will Provide Prescription Medication Information For Katrina Evacuees to Authorized Health Professionals and Pharmacists

September 22, 2005
NEW YORK, NY—An online service for authorized health professionals to gain electronic access to prescription medication records for ...