Health Affairs Archives | Markle
Health Affairs Archives | Markle

Publication Source: Health Affairs

Many Physicians Are Willing to Use Patients’ Electronic Personal Health Records, but Doctors Differ by Location, Gender, and Practice

Electronic personal health records could become important tools for patients to use in managing and monitoring their health information and communicating with clinicians. With the…

Collecting And Sharing Data For Population Health: A New Paradigm

Health information technology (IT) has great potential to transform health care and inform population health goals in clinical research, quality measurement, and public safety. To…

Is Overreliance on Technical Standards Undermining Efforts to Use IT to Transform the U.S. Health System?

Considers whether efforts on technology standards absent alignment of policy objectives and financial incentives is “magical thinking” and reports that the nation’s health IT coordinator…

Health Information Exchange: ‘Lex Parsimoniae’

Article covers the health information exchange (HIE) it’s details and how it will change America should it be fully integrated – by creating a consistent…