4. @ekivemark
Disclaimer
The views expressed in this presentation
are my own personal views and should
not be construed as an official position of:
• US Department of Health and Human
Services
or
• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services.
5. @ekivemark
20–30k
Downloads/Month
• Hospital
• Physician
• Prescription drugs
Federally Inspired
Blue Button Community
• VA
• DoD (TRICARE)
• CMS
2xtext
downloadsBeneficiaries can download
up to 3 years of claims data
Private sector
applications already
ingest, optimize, and
visualize data from
Blue Button text files
@ekivemark
7. There are big opportunities…
54,000,000Medicare Beneficiaries (2014 est.)
@ekivemark
29,000,000MyMedicare Portal Users
8. An Essential
First Step
@ekivemark
…but it left the patient to
do the heavy lifting
9. BlueButton Vision
“Build a Developer-friendly,
Standards-based data API
that enables beneficiaries to
connect their data to the
applications, services and
research programs they trust”
14. @ekivemark
Making a contribution to
the FHIR Community
CMS Synthetic
Public Use Files
(SYN-PUF)
FHIR
Patient
ExplanationOfBenefit
11K Patient Profiles
1.1M EOB Profiles
21. @ekivemark
Get to know the FHIR Rest API
https://api.bbonfhir.com/api/v1/Patient
https://api.bbonfhir.com/api/v1/ExplanationOfBenefit
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