Google, Microsoft, WebMD, Dossia and other major technology providers in the burgeoning PHR (personal health record) niche are all hopeful that a new privacy and security standard released last week will be just the catalyst they need to give consumers more control over their digital health care information.
Developed with direction from health care policy makers, insurers, consumer activists, health care providers and PHR technology vendors, the Connecting for Health Common Framework was the brainchild of The Markle Foundation. This New York-based non-profit organized the consensus framework through its public/private Connecting for Health collaborative group in the hopes that it could jumpstart the use of public health records among patients across America.
