Michael Wittie | January 6, 2015
Data rests at the heart of health IT’s capacity to help improve care quality and health outcomes: standards-based, interoperable electronic systems make it possible to access, share, use and re-use information that was once locked in paper charts kept by individual providers. As more and more consumers engage and adopt mobile health technologies to help them better track their daily health and wellbeing, it will be increasingly important to consider how those data can flow seamlessly from consumers to providers – and back – to help everyone achieve better health.
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Maya Uppaluru | September 15, 2014
A Single Source for Technical Standards & Guidelines to Support Patient Access to Their Health Data
Blue Button is for every person, provider, and community interested in improving care and health through information access and use. As part of the Blue Button Initiative, we are launching the Blue Button Toolkit.
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Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | September 10, 2014
Caroline Coy | May 15, 2014
For Shannon Parker, a mom in Salem, Oregon, having access to a Personal Health Record (PHR) updated with her son’s latest health information allows her to put her son at the center of his care – no matter where he’s being treated. This means giving her an electronic tool she can use to coordinate her son’s care for brittle bone disease so she can work with her local pediatrician and a specialist all the way in Omaha,
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Lygeia Ricciardi | February 24, 2014
Today at the HIMSS conference in Orlando ONC demonstrated the Blue Button Connector. This early release of the Connector website is an invitation to members of the growing Blue Button community to help to improve the website before it is more widely marketed to consumers and developers.
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