Organizations Endorse Markle Foundation Collaboration to Increase Consumer Access to Personal Health Information and Protect Privacy Information Technology for Health Care Reform Should Increase Consumer Participation NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The future of health care should encourage expanded use of information tools to help consumers better manage their health, 56 diverse organizations said today as they embraced a framework for personal health information access and privacy. "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 treatment options, make better health decisions, and take better care of loved ones," the group said in a joint statement.

The United States’ health czar has plans to revamp the nation’s health system and make the transition from paper to electronic health documents.

Markle Connecting for Health announces broad agreement on principles for Getting Health IT Right under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Markle Foundation hosts a forum to discuss the $19 billion allocated to investments in health information technology (IT) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

The Markle Foundation and PolicyArchive collaborate to create a new portal for research papers and reports that address the impact of information technology on health outcomes and national security. LOS ANGELES, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PolicyArchive.org, the leading digital library of public policy research developed by the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) and IUPUI University Library, launches a new online portal of research documents sponsored by the Markle Foundation in New York.

Aetna (NYSE:AET) today announced its support of a newly released Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information developed by Connecting for Health, a public-private collaboration operated by the Markle Foundation.