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Q&A with David Lansky

David Lansky, Executive Director of the Markle Foundation, explains why interoperability is essential for improving the quality of care and for creating a platform that enables innovation.

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Q&A with Carol Diamond

Markle’s Managing Director of Health, Carol C. Diamond, discusses why public trust is essential to the successful exchange of electronic health information, and how that…

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Digital Medical Records: What You Need to Know

Markle has convened a group of experts that recommend specific practices to help individuals make informed choices about downloading their personal health information, and to…

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Evolving Privacy, Security Regulations Complicate Health IT

Those developing HIEs must be cognizant of all development in this area, lest the model they create fail to qualify for meaningful use dollars because…

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“Blue button” Access to Medical Records

“We live in a networked world and no one thinks twice about going online to manage finances, or travel plans, or taxes. This is about…

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Health 2.0 Reveals the Winners of the 2010 Developer Challenge

Winners of the 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge and the Blue Button Challenge, sponsored by Markle Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, showcase at…

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Medicare, Veterans to Get Downloadable Health Info

Developers have been creating apps that can tie into the Blue Button data, and the Markle Foundation has issued a challenge for developers to create…

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Baird: Health Care Innovation Means Better Care and More Jobs

The cost burdens for health care carried by businesses and individuals represent one of the biggest threats to the long-term competitiveness of our economy, and…

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Health 2.0 Announces Four New Challenges to Turbo Charge Innovation in Health Care

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Markle Foundation, CMS & the VA have issued the Blue Button Challenge which has opened up sample data sets…

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Markle Calls For One Click Access to Health Info

Markle describes the privacy policies and practices that should support the download function, such as authentication of the user, security safeguards and patient education about…

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Markle Foundation’s Recommendations for ‘Blue Button’ Backed by 46 Organizations

Markle Connecting for Health has developed a set of privacy and security practices to guide implementers. This new policy guidance builds on the Markle Connecting…

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For Vets, Records at the Click of a Blue Button

In its 18-page report, Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information, Policies and Practices, the Download Capability, Markle said that the VA and the CMS…