Demonstrating how Patients can use BlueButton

Humetrix demonstrated their iBlueButton app
Medyear – Panha Chheng demonstrates the Medyear Consumer-Mediated Health Information Exchange

Humetrix – Humans + Metrics

Started in 1990 with a diet smartwatch.
In 2006-2009 this evolved to USB enabled Web-based applications

iBlueButton is an iOS App that pulls BlueButton file from a datasource. Data is only stored on the user’s phone.
Data can be pushed by Provider using Direct.
Data can be pulled by the app from a data source.

iBlueButton supports the CMS BlueButton ASCII text file.

using MedlinePlus for Drug information.

Allows you to reconcile allergies/conditions etc.

Pulls Medicare, DOD and VA records.

Some challenges:
- 87% of eligible providers attesting for MU2 received exclusions for sending summaries of care.
- Only 2% of providers were able to get patients to download data.

The challenge for the IBX BlueButton Workshop: How can we close care gaps with the patient using BlueButton.

IBX Presenting their work on Care Gaps and BlueButton

The Clinical Care Report (CCR)

Data is aggregated by Informatics including member level information:
(Disease conditions, ER Visits, Hospitalizations, Outpatient procedures, specialist visits, Imaging stuies, Gaps in care)
Daily reports generated every evening
CCR called up by Providers via Navinet

Providers do 0.5M eligibility checks each month. Only a few percent of those checks also pull the CCR information.

[Editor’s Note: Isn’t the gap that this is going to the Provider and not engaging the patient. BlueButton opens the channel to the patient.]

IBX offers a mobile and desktop portal. They are moving the web/desktop portal to the mobile codebase.

The mobile app is adding a BlueButton section
There will be an option to email but it will be unsecured (ie. Not using Direct Standards)
The BlueButton attachment is encrypted with a password.

Over 50% of patients have a care gap (based on HEDIS measures).

Medyear demo by Panha Chheng

The Patient is the De facto Health Information Exchange

see more at Medyear.com

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