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The Common Framework Glossary

Glossary to terms to associate with The Common Framework

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Visioning Scenarios

A description of an ideal state, circa 2015, in which health professionals, consumers, and others are connected across a secure network that supports decision-making based…

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Consumers as Network Participants

This document is part of the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information. The framework proposes a set of practices that, when taken…

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Electronic Health Data Exchanges: Patient and Consumer Principles for System Design

Improving health and health care depends upon accurate, timely, understandable, and relevant information in the hands of consumers, patients and health professionals, where and when…

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Collaborative Response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services RFI: Voluntary Storage of Personal Data in Preparation for Emergencies

Summary Markle Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative group whose goal is to advance health information technology in the public interest, is pleased to offer…

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Letters in support of the nomination of Carol Diamond to the American Health Information Community

The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Suite 615F Washington, DC 20201 Dear Secretary…

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Designing the National Health Information Network: Patient and Consumer-focused Principles

Modern health care depends upon accurate, timely, understandable, and relevant information.  Complete and useful information needs to be in the hands of patients, families, professionals,…

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The Collaborative Response to the ONCHIT Request for Information

David J. Brailer, MD, PhD Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dear Dr. Brailer: The…

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David Lansky’s Cover Letter to HHS

Dear Dr. Brailer: It has been our privilege to convene the patient and consumer organizations listed below to develop a statement of Patient and Consumer-focused…

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Collaborative Response to AHRQ on Quality Data Stewardship

We encourage AHRQ and AQA to develop systems for nationally uniform performance measurement with a humble recognition of our limited and evolving understanding of what information users…

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Dissenting Statement on PHR Certification to the American Health Information Community

We acknowledge a need for federal governmental leadership that accelerates the potential of PHRs to empower the consumer. However, certification should not be a governmental…

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Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information: Statement of Support

Consumers need to be full participants in modern health information tools and services to help them prevent illness, communicate better with clinicians, understand costs and…