As billions of dollars of federal funding begin to flow into health information technology (health IT), we ask a simple question: Shouldn’t there be a…
The public-private collaborative group envisions the blue button as a common offering among secure websites for patients and beneficiaries by medical practices, hospitals, insurers, pharmacies,…
Certification is primarily a way of enforcing that products meet certain criteria or standards. It can exert a powerful influence on products and markets—an influence…
This report discusses the problem online health users face due to the overwhelming number of listings provided by search engines and how this is affecting…
Considers whether efforts on technology standards absent alignment of policy objectives and financial incentives is “magical thinking” and reports that the nation’s health IT coordinator…
Markle, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and others comment on the new federal health data breach notification provisions to be administered by the US…
Markle’s Connecting for Health Initiative has since 2002 brought together leading government, industry, and health care experts to accelerate the development of a health information-sharing…
We urge HHS not to pursue a one-size-fits-all use case or technical approach to the issue of consent in advance of policy objectives and requirements….
In this testimony, Claudia Williams addresses this goal of maintaining public trust by making privacy a critical enabler of information sharing and health IT adoption, and…
