At this year’s HIMSS conference, interoperability was again one of the hottest topics of discussion. Interoperability was even a featured showcase at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase. Yet the lack of interoperability in HealthIT remains. "HealthIT is not unique in its interoperability woes and other industries, including the automotive industry, are still struggling with associated safety issues."
Blue Button
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Blue Button: Driving a Patient-Centered Revolution in Health Care
Steve Downs | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | September 13, 2011
A lot can happen in a year. Last October, I wrote about a promising new offering for people looking to take control of their own health and health care decisions. Known as "blue button," this simple (but rather revolutionary) technology offers individuals the ability to download their own health information with just the click of a mouse. Read More »
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California HIE Taps iBlueButton
Diana Manos | Government Health IT | October 23, 2013
Humetrix, a provider of consumer-centric mobile healthcare applications, and the developer of the iBlueButton app, announced Tuesday that the State of California Office of Health Information Integrity (OHII) has chosen iBlueButton to participate in its upcoming Health Information Exchange (HIE) pilot. Read More »
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Call for Participation in the Automate Blue Button Initiative: Enhancing Consumer Access to Health Information
Lygeia Ricciardi and Dr. Doug Fridsma | Health IT Buzz | August 9, 2012
In response to feedback received during the June 4 Patient Access Summit, ONC and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will soon be launching an initiative to automate “Blue Button” by developing standards and specifications that allow patients to not only download their health information to their personal computer, but also to privately and securely automate the sending of that data from their health care providers to their personal health records, email accounts, health-related applications, or other preferred holding place.
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Car Crashes, Auto Bumpers, and HealthIT Interoperability
By Bennett Lauber | April 1, 2016
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CCSi Awarded VA Contract To Enable Rural-Area Veterans Access to Benefit Systems
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CCSi, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
July 21, 2014
Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi), a leading provider of health services, program management, cybersecurity and enterprise systems engineering to the federal government, today announced it has received a prime contract to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Informatics and Analytics, Health Informatics Office and the Office of Rural Health...
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Clinician, researcher, and patients working together: progress aired at Indivo conference
Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | June 21, 2012
I spent Monday in a small library at the Harvard Medical School listening to a discussion of the Indivo patient health record and related open source projects with about 80 intensely committed followers. Lead Indivo architect Daniel Haas, whom I interviewed a year ago, succeeded in getting the historical 2.0 release of Indivo out on the day of the conference. Read More »
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CMS Goes Live with Blue Button - With Life and Cost Saving Applications for 53 Million Americans to Use
By Bettina Experton, MD, MPH | July 18, 2018
On August 13 at the White House in Washington, D.C., the Office of American Innovation and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host the first Blue Button 2.0 conference. This event will highlight CMS’ strong investment and leadership in Blue Button as a patient driven means for interoperability, cost-effective care and patient safety. Eight years after President Obama’s announcement of the Blue Button initiative to give Veterans, military beneficiaries and Medicare beneficiaries “easy access to their health information” with the use of a “Blue Button”, CMS Administrator Seema Verma took action with “Blue Button 2.0” so that 53 million Medicare beneficiaries can now make use of CMS approved patient facing Blue Button applications, turning a four-year history of claim data into actionable longitudinal health records to prevent costly medical errors, unnecessary redundant care or other harmful and wasteful care.
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CMS To Invest $5+ Billion a Year in Open Source and Cloud-based IT Infrastructure for Medicaid
By Roger A. Maduro | August 18, 2016
After more than 40 years of relying on monolithic mainframe platforms to administer its services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has embraced a new modular, open and agile approach to Medicaid health information technology for the Federal government and States. In many ways, this is the best of what open source advocates and technology innovators could have hoped for when it comes to open source policy from a government agency. According to Andrew Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS, the agency will spend more than $5 billion a year to fund this transformation.
Coding for Heroes: Second Lady Biden, Chopra, Levin Praise Civic Technologists
Luke Fretwell | Fed Scoop | January 20, 2012
Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin visited the headquarters of civic technology nonprofit Code for America in San Francisco on Wednesday, where they praised the contributions of citizen developers, including work related to the Joining Forces initiative created by Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama in April 2011.
Consumer Guide Promotes Personal Health Records
Ken Terry | InformationWeek | September 17, 2012
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has issued a guide to help consumers understand how they can access their medical records and what they can do with them. Read More »
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Consumer Health IT Summit - Government As Catalyst
Brian Ahier | Government Health IT | September 13, 2012
Kicking off National Health IT Week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted the second Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, September 10, 2012. Read More »
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Consumers Could Get Lab Test Results Themselves Under New Proposed Rule
Chris Fleming | HealthAffairs.org | September 12, 2011
President Obama has proclaimed this the first ever national health information technology week, and under a proposed new rule being issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services, patients anywhere in the country would be able to get their clinical test results directly from the lab. Read More »
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Contest Produces Consumer Friendly Health Records
Ken Terry | Information Week HealthCare | January 30, 2013
Competition focused on improving look of downloaded health records, and Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT hopes EHR vendors will participate in followup project. Read More »
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Continuity Of Care: 4 Benefits Of The DoD And VA's Integrated EHR
Benjamin Harris | Healthcare IT News | November 9, 2012
Caring for the nation's service members has never been easy. Providing world-class medical attention for the men and women of the Armed Forces from the front lines to the hospitals and clinics of the Veterans Administration (VA) is a daunting task that entails massive logistical and data hurdles. Read More »
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