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National Healthcare Identifiers

I was recently asked to comment on the likelihood that a national healthcare identifier will be created for the United States, such as those that…

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Markle Addresses Authentication for Health Records

Late last week, the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health initiative released its latest report: Consumer Authentication for Networked Personal Health Information. As with previous reports…

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EHR Adoption Lag Attributed to Lack of Funds, Incentives

Despite two decades of advocacy for electronic health records as a way to improve care and make health care more efficient, about 90% of U.S….

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Group Launches Health IT Privacy Project To Develop Policies

On Tuesday, the Center for Democracy and Technology announced its merger with the Health Privacy Project to expand the group’s focus on several patient privacy…

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HIPAA Revisited, Part 1: Privacy vs. Portability

Responding to heightened concerns about the privacy of individuals’ medical and healthcare information, the federal government in 1996 introduced HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and…

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The Markle Connecting For Health Subcommittee on Quality and Cost Effectiveness

On June 19, 2008, the Markle Foundation Connecting for Health Steering Group met to discuss means of disseminating the Common Framework for Networked Personal Health…

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Online Healthcare Records Framework

The Markle Foundation has just helped launch what can best be described as the first REAL effort at designing a framework for organizing healthcare information…

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Microsoft, Google And Others Agree To Electronic Health Records Standard

In a move designed to prompt more people to store their medical records online, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and several others have agreed…

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Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information

Today, June 25, 2008 the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Initiative, a public-private collaborative group engaging more than 100 organizations representing all major components of…

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Goldilocks: “Markle’s Framework for Networked Personal Health Information is Just Right”

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. Like most Americans, Goldilocks had concerns about achieving just the right amount of data…

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Tech Giants Back Online Health Records Standards

Microsoft and Google have joined a collection of insurers and health care providers in endorsing privacy standards intended to protect medical records stored online. The…

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Privacy Framework for PHRs

Early this afternoon, The Markle Foundation announced broad industry endorsement for their just released Privacy Framework, a part of a broader effort by Markle referred…