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Each year the Foundation and our grantees produce materials that reflect our philanthropic investments. Below is a sampling—books, book chapters, journal articles, reports, audiovisuals and newsletters—produced in 2004. Copies may not be available through the Foundation.

Markle Foundation. Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare. New York: Markle Foundation, 2004. Available at: connectingforhealth.org/resources/cfh_aech_roadmap_072004.pdf.

Emerging technologies offer an unprecedented ability to provide accurate and actionable medical information in a secure and private form when and where it is needed, whether by patients themselves or by the clinicians who care for them. This report provides recommendations for identifying and removing barriers to the growth of electronic connectivity in health care.

Markle Foundation. Connecting Americans to Their Healthcare. New York: Markle Foundation, 2004. Available at: connectingforhealth.org/resources/wg_eis_final_report_0704.pdf.

This report describes a framework for evaluating personal health records and provides a series of recommendations for critical next steps to advance the field of interoperable health information systems that permit significant patient access and control.

Markle Foundation. Financial, Legal and Organizational Approaches to Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare. New York: Markle Foundation, 2004. Available at: connectingforhealth.org/assets/reports/flo_sustain_healtcare_rpt.pdf.

To stimulate the adoption of much-needed IT systems in health care, the Connecting for Health Working Group on Financial, Organizational and Legal Sustainability of Health Information Exchange developed: (1) an analysis of the legal and organizational issues and barriers related to health information exchange, and (2) a high-level qualitative financial analysis of the business case for adoption of clinical information systems from the providers’ perspective.