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ONC Announces Winners Of Blue Button + Challenge
The winner of ONC’s Blue Button Co-Design Challenge, the third challenge this year, is GenieMD! Read More »
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ONC challenges developers to mash up Blue Button, big data
Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, announced a Blue Button Mash-Up challenge that will have a “different flavor” by bringing big data together for the individual...ONC will award $75,000 in prize money for the winning apps, which are to be submitted by Sept. 5.
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ONC Challenges State HIE Grantees to Increase Consumer Data Access
In an expansion of its Consumer Pledge program, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has challenged grantees of ONC's state health information exchange program to increase consumers' access to their own health information. Participating states are being asked to make "concrete progress" in the six months to get healthcare data into consumers' hand so they can share it with family members and multiple providers... Read More »
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ONC Chief Urges Vendors To Go For Blue Button ASAP
Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, has challenged vendors to make it easy for consumers by early 2013 to view, download and transmit to another party their health information in the form of a Blue Button feature. Read More »
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ONC Contest Seeks Designers With A Flair For Blue Button
The Blue Button feature for patients to download and use their health information is a capability that is becoming available outside of federal health systems, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT wants developers to help improve the design to make the medical record more usable and meaningful to patients and their caregivers. Read More »
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ONC Continues Blue Button Push With Video Contest
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT launched its Blue Button video competition Oct. 1 to create awareness of consumers having easy online access to their health information, and to motivate them in how they might use it. Read More »
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ONC Continues Push For Blue Button During National HIT Week
Patient engagement is an important new requirement for Stage 2 Meaningful Use, and it’s a potential stumbling block for eligible hospitals and professionals failing to exceed the five-percent threshold required on this during this next phase of the EHR Incentive Programs. Read More »
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ONC Design Challenge: 'Humanize' Electronic Health Records
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are asking graphic designers to help them put a new patient-friendly spin on printed Blue Button records. The VA's Blue Button initiative lets users log in to a website and view, download and share their health records. Read More »
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ONC Expanding Blue Button Capabilities
The Blue Button initiative has already let more than one-million veterans and active-duty troops download their personal health records. But the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information (ONC) has a larger audience in mind. Read More »
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ONC Goes Hollywood to Showcase Health IT
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is going Hollywood, or at least contracting a California production company, to create a video to explain to the public the value of health IT and how individuals can engage with their providers. Read More »
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ONC Holds A Key To The Structural Deficit
It’s called Blue Button+ and it works by giving physicians and patients the power to drive change. Read More »
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ONC Kicks Off Blue Button Video Contest
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT launched its Blue Button video competition Oct. 1 to create awareness of consumers having easy online access to their health information, and to motivate them in how they might use it. Read More »
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ONC Looks To Make Blue Button Public, Boost Patient Engagement
Blue Button may have started as a patient engagement tool that allows veterans to access their health information electronically, but government IT officials are looking to bring this type of functionality to civilian patients, too. Read More »
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ONC Posts Tech Guide For Blue Button Plus
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has made available technical descriptions and guidance for its more automated version of the Blue Button feature aimed at giving patients easier access and use of their health information. Read More »
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ONC Reveals Blue Button Codeathon Winners
ONC on Friday named the winners of its Blue Button codeathon. Read More »
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