The enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offers an unprecedented opportunity to…
Certification is primarily a way of enforcing that products meet certain criteria or standards. It can exert a powerful influence on products and markets—an influence…
Markle, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and others comment on the new federal health data breach notification provisions to be administered by the US…
Markle’s Connecting for Health Initiative has since 2002 brought together leading government, industry, and health care experts to accelerate the development of a health information-sharing…
Section 13407 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)1 establishes temporary breach notification requirements for vendors of personal health records (PHRs)2 and other entities…
Summary Markle Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative group whose goal is to advance health information technology in the public interest, is pleased to offer…
David J. Brailer, MD, PhD Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dear Dr. Brailer: The…
We encourage AHRQ and AQA to develop systems for nationally uniform performance measurement with a humble recognition of our limited and evolving understanding of what information users…
We acknowledge a need for federal governmental leadership that accelerates the potential of PHRs to empower the consumer. However, certification should not be a governmental…
