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News & Events

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

Practice Fusion and "Freeconomics"

July 26, 2008
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, studies and writes about the human condition in the information age. The world that we ...
Categories: Health    Tags: consumers, Internet

PHRs - beyond the standard design

July 22, 2008
Patti Brennan, a nursing colleague of long-standing, is National Program Director, and gave the closing keynote at the SINI2008 conference last ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: EHR/PHR, technology

More on the Markle framework: Patti Brennan's perspective

July 16, 2008
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is the Director of Project Health Design. She made the following comments in response to the Markle ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

Software companies back online health records privacy framework

July 1, 2008
With the dawn of new information-oriented and software services on the web, many Americans are interested in using web based tools for ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy

Connecting for Health: Another wave in the shift to consumer controlled health information

July 1, 2008
The recent announcement of the Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information by the Connecting for Health collaboration lead by ...
Categories: Health   

Are Privacy Standards Enough to Push Electronic Health Records?

June 30, 2008
Google, Microsoft, WebMD, Dossia and other major technology providers in the burgeoning PHR (personal health record) niche are all hopeful that ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy

New Standards for Digital Medical Record Released

June 27, 2008
A coalition of employers, health insurers and health care providers released a set of policy and technical guidelines June 25 they say ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, standards

Personal Health Records and the Markle Foundation

June 27, 2008
Today I need to get down to more serious issues. I inject humor from time to time to maintain equilibrium.  I have had some commentary ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

Wide Spectrum Collaboration on Online Medical Records Announced

June 27, 2008
Leaders in several industries have joined forces to provide the utmost level of security and accuracy in the emerging field of online personal ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

Set of Privacy Standards Adopted by Providers of Personal Health Records

June 27, 2008
Given the fragmentation of many health services in the U.S., creating a shared set of privacy standards is an important step in furthering the ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy