Explore Reports, articles, and other resources
In The News
A vast majority of Americans have never asked a doctor to provide them with personal health information or medical records in an electronic format, yet…
In The News
Last week, Adobe Systems won first prize for its “Blue Button Health Assistant” in a software developer challenge for the best application using blue button…
In The News
Stephen J. Downs, Assistant Vice President for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a member of the Markle Connecting for Health Steering Group, writes a…
In The News
Data recently released by The Markle Foundation caught my attention. Markle is a leader in connecting health and IT, and they appear to be monitoring…
In The News
Today the Administration is announcing the formal launch of Blue Button for Veterans and Medicare beneficiaries, as well as announcing the winners of a groundbreaking…
In The News
The Blue Button app should be getting an upgrade soon. Through a partnership between the Markle and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations developers were challenged to…
In The News
The federal government formally launched its Blue Button initiative. Under the initiative, Medicare and Veterans Affairs beneficiaries will be able to download their own health…
In The News
The Obama administration’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy formally unveiled a Web tool that will enable seniors and veterans to download their…
In The News
In written testimony prepared for a Congressional hearing held Sept. 30, Deven McGraw, director of the health privacy project at the Center for Democracy &…
In The News
A new survey finds that 70 percent of the public and 65 percent of doctors agree with the concept of a “blue button” to enable…
In The News
Neil Versel, reporter for FierceHealthIT.com, writes about the release of Markle’s study, showing that two-thirds of physicians and consumers alike “agreed with the concept of…
In The News
Seventy percent of surveyed U.S. adults believe patients should be able to download and retain copies of personal health information, according to a Markle Foundation…
