The U.S. Digital Service team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a new tool that aims to help us learn more from Medicare claims data. CMS Administrator Seema Verma ...

Momentum is building for giving patients easier access to their records by clicking a "blue button" on a secure website. Starting this fall, military veterans served by the U.S. Department of Veterans ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is holding a contest to see which team can build a personal health record using the Blue Button download format and arranges to install those health records on the ...

The Veterans Affairs Department and the Markle Foundation are promoting "blue button" applications that would allow patients to download their personal medical data from providers and insurers.

All employees insured under plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program soon will be able to see, download and store their personal health data with the click of a mouse. The tool, known as ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Tuesday that it is offering a $50,000 prize to the first team that builds a personal health record using the Blue Button download format – and ...

In August 2010, President Obama told veterans they soon would be able to go to the Veterans Affairs Department website, “click a simple blue button, download or print your personal health records so ...

An update to the computer program behind the VA's "Blue Button" health record sharing system will make it more accessible to physicians outside the VA, according to a new announcement. The Department ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it is offering a $50,000 prize to the first team that builds a personal health record (PHR) using the Blue Button℠ ...