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70 Percent of Public Says Patients Should Get Summaries After Doctor Visits

Read the Survey Overview Key Findings 70 percent of patients believe they should get a written or online summary after each doctor visit. Both patients…

Public and Doctors Alike Support Allowing Individuals to Download Their Own Health Information

Read the Survey Overview Key Findings Roughly 2 in 3 members of the public and doctors agree that people should be able to download their…

PHR Adoption on the Rise

Read the Survey Overview Key Findings 10 percent of the public surveyed report use of electronic personal health records (PHRs). A similar proportion of doctors…

3 in 4 Doctors Would Prefer Computerized Means to Share Patient Information with Each Other

Read the Survey Overview Key Findings Only 17 percent of the doctors surveyed said they use computer-based means predominantly to communicate with other doctors today….

Many Doctors and Patients Perceive Gaps in Their Communications

Read the Survey Overview Key Findings Nearly all doctors say their patients sometimes or most times forget potentially important things they are told. Substantial portions…

Large Majorities of the Public and Physicians Agree on Information-Sharing Priorities for Health IT

Read the Survey Overview Key Findings For public subsidies of health IT to be well spent, roughly 4 in 5 of the public and doctors…

Survey Snapshot: The Public and Doctors Agree on Importance of Specific Privacy Safeguards

Markle’s six nationwide surveys to date have consistently found that the public expects electronic PHRs to be beneficial in health and health care management. The…

Collaborative Comments on Accountable Care Organizations

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…

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Networked PHRs

In this presentation, James Ralston from Group Health Cooperative; Paul Shiels from eHealth, Aetna, Inc.; and Omid Moghadam from Intel Corporation talk about their efforts…