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Technology Companies, Providers, Health Insurers and Consumer Groups Agree on Framework for Increasing Privacy and Consumer Control Over Personal Health Records

NEW YORK—Dossia, Google, Intuit, Microsoft, and WebMD today joined prominent health care providers, health insurers, and consumer and privacy groups in endorsing a set of…

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Connecting Americans to their Health Care

From January 2004 through June 2004, within the framework of Phase II of Connecting for Health, the Working Group on Policies for Electronic Information Sharing…

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A Framework for Informed, Intelligent and Safe Decision-Making for Health in the 21st Century

Markle Connecting for Health has proposed a nationwide framework for a secure “network of networks” to enable the sharing of personal health information where and when…

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Appendix A: Clinical Data Exchange Efforts in the United States: An Overview

The overwhelming message we distilled from this overview is that it is not necessarily the technical roadblocks that have most limited opportunities for clinical data exchange –…

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The Data Standards Working Group: Report and Recommendations

There has been an increasing recognition by both the public and private sectors of the ability to improve the quality and safety of healthcare with interoperable…

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Financial, Legal and Organizational Approaches to Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare

In an effort to stimulate the adoption of much-needed IT systems in healthcare, the Connecting for Health Working Group on Financial, Organizational and Legal Sustainability…

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Opportunities for CMS Actions in Support of Personal Health Records

CMS is in a unique position to acquire and distribute some of the data— in a structured, beneficiary-controlled way— to enable innovative developers to provide valuable tools…

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Department of Health and Human Services Actions Advance Goal of Electronic Health Information Infrastructure

New York—Connecting for Health commends the recent announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the adoption of the second group of…

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Health IT Investments Should Enable People to Download Their Own Information at the Click of a Blue Button

NEW YORK—The simple, but rarely offered, ability for people to download their health records should be a priority in the nationwide push to upgrade health…

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New Markle Survey Finds US Public and Doctors Alike Support ‘Blue Button’ for Downloading Health Information

SAN FRANCISCO—Both the US public and doctors overwhelmingly agree that people should be able to go online to download copies of their medical information, according…

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Blue Button’ Apps Show How to Turn Health Data Downloads into Helpful Tools

SAN FRANCISCO—The Markle Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio today recognized a set of innovations that convert simple health data downloads into…

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Survey Finds Americans Want Electronic Personal Health Information to Improve Own Health Care

Lake Research Partners (LRP) and American Viewpoint conducted a survey among 1,003 Americans nationwide, November 11 – 15, 2006, for the Markle Foundation. The survey examined…