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.

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 ...

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 ...

Blue Button, the Department of Veterans Affairs brainchild that allows patients to download copies of their electronic medical records, has proven popular among users, according to a study in the ...

In efforts to guarantee patient access to their lab tests, the nation's largest pharmacies are now promising to adopt the Blue Button personal health record. Walgreens, Kroger, CVS, Rite Aid, Safeway ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- RelayHealth, McKesson’s connectivity business, has been named the winner of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) “Blue Button for All Americans” contest. RelayHealth ...

To healthcare providers, electronic medical record vendors and an increasing number of patients, the small Blue Button logo indicates a medical record can be downloaded and shared with other ...

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 ...