The Markle Survey of Health in a Networked Life compared the core values of physicians and the general public on deployment of information technology in healthcare. Key findings from the survey include the following:
• Roughly 2 in 3 of both groups (70 percent of the public and 65 percent of the physicians) agreed that patients should be able to download their personal health information online.
• Majorities of 70-80 percent of both patients and physicians support privacy-protective practices.
• Majorities (65 percent of the public and 75 percent of physicians) agreed that it’s important to have a policy against the government collecting personally identifiable health information for health IT or health care quality-improvement programs.
• Large majorities of the public (75 percent) and the doctors (73 percent) said it will be important to measure progress on improving health care quality and safety to ensure the public health IT investments are well spent.
Read the news release about the Markle survey.
Read other coverage about meaningful use:
– ONC Awards $80M More in Funding to RECs, HIEs and Workforce Programs
– GOP Bill Puts Meaningful Use, HITECH Act in Peril
– Physicians Struggle to Identify Technologies That Achieve Meaningful Use
