The enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offers an unprecedented opportunity to…
Until recently, consumerism has not been a characteristic of the health care industry. This session will consider the business models that drive personal health technology…
David Lansky, from Markle Foundation; Steve Downs, from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and Patrick Kennedy, U.S. Representative, D-RI, make the opening remarks at the 2006 PHR…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
