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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
