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News & Events

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

Privacy standards help safeguard online health data

June 26, 2008
A nonprofit, with the blessing of high-tech companies and health care firms, this week established a standard framework for protecting online ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy

Markle promotes a privacy standard

June 26, 2008
The Markle Foundation put together a group creating a road map over the last few years and today they announced their new policy framework for ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy

Microsoft, Google, Consumers Endorse Health Privacy Standards

June 25, 2008
Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., and dozens of organizations promoting consumer adoption of electronic personal health records agreed for the ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy

Privacy Framework for PHRs

June 25, 2008
Early this afternoon, The Markle Foundation announced broad industry endorsement for their just released Privacy Framework, a part of a broader ...

Tech Giants Back Online Health Records Standards

June 25, 2008
Microsoft and Google have joined a collection of insurers and health care providers in endorsing privacy standards intended to protect medical ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy

Goldilocks: “Markle’s Framework for Networked Personal Health Information is Just Right”

June 25, 2008
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. Like most Americans, Goldilocks had concerns about achieving just the right amount ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information

June 25, 2008
Today, June 25, 2008 the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Initiative, a public-private collaborative group engaging more than ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

Microsoft, Google And Others Agree To Electronic Health Records Standard

June 25, 2008
In a move designed to prompt more people to store their medical records online, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and several others ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

Americans Overwhelmingly Believe Electronic Personal Health Records Could Improve Their Health

June 25, 2008
The Markle Foundation has published a research brief based on a survey conducted among 1,580 American adults (18+) nationwide during the period ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, survey

Online Healthcare Records Framework

June 25, 2008
The Markle Foundation has just helped launch what can best be described as the first REAL effort at designing a framework for organizing ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR