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Blue Button for All Americans Contest. What: Veterans can get their health data using BB regardless of where they get their care: 22 – ~6 – >16 How: NGOs put BB PHRs in doctor’s offices: 800 – 75 – <10 Why: PHRs are new. BB is very new. Docs practice medicine.
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Blue Button for All Americans Contest • What: • Veterans can get their health data using BB regardless of where they get their care: 22 – ~6 – >16 • How: • NGOs put BB PHRs in doctor’s offices: 800 – 75 – <10 • Why: • PHRs are new. BB is very new. Docs practice medicine. • But: Electronic Health Records, Meaningful Use: ~60 • The contest: • First organization to make BB PHRs available to patients of 25K doctors across America: $50K
Blue Button for All Americans Contest • The Result: We have a winner. 28 – 200 – 17 • Contest was a catalyst: • Aetna – CMS – DoD/TRICARE – Iatric – McKesson/RelayHealth - Patients Like Me – United Health Group – Vermont BluePrint for Health – Walgreens – Others http://bluebuttondata.org/about.php • BB Users: • 9/10: 3,000 • 9/11: 80M+
Blue Button for All Americans Contest • Legal Issues: • Authority and Funding • Advisory Committees • Paperwork Reduction Act • Privacy Act • Liability and Insurance • Intellectual Property • Judging • Contact info: james.speros@va.gov