Even though EHRs have replaced paper health records aiming to make data management more convenient, managing health records is still an apprehension for patients. With the introduction of BlueButton 2.0, patients will have access to 4 years of their health record. This gives the patients more confidence in their health care and make data more comprehensive and easily accessible. By facilitating access to patient health history, it has the potential to drive down Medicare spending and improve health outcomes.

1. Sanjay Patil is a Healthcare IT consultant with top-tier consulting experience in successful-
ly delivering large scale custom development projects, application integration, content
management ,portal solutions and implementation of health care business solutions. He
has been actively involved in Meaningful Use and is passionate about creating IT solutions
for providers w.r.t different regulatory programs. He has worked in delivering solutions
across all product lines such as EMR, EHR ,Care Co-ordination, Patient Engagement , Popu-
lation Health Management.
Sanjay Patil
BLUE BUTTON 2.0
CMS initiated Blue Button 2.0 at the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference to empower
patients by giving them control over their healthcare information, making patient
the center of healthcare system.
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2. Managing health records is an apprehension for patients even though
EHRs have replaced paper health records. Despite the fact that
patients have access to their health information, it is often incomplete,
and incomprehensible. Data portability is another challenge in the
healthcare industry. When a patient moves from one healthcare
system to another, the absence of a complete health history leads to
redundant tests and unnecessary treatments, thereby, adversely
affecting value-based care.
Though healthcare data is available for patients through different
sources, the scattered nature of managing the data is affecting infor-
mation processing adversely.
Using an application to keep track of the regular
tests and services based on personal health infor-
mation such as medications, allergies, lab tests,
and results.
Using an app or other computer programs to track
health over longer periods can help make better
decisions about health.
By connecting health data to research projects,
researchers can use the data to expand their
knowledge on a range of health issues.
Enable designing wellness programs, developing
educational materials, and facilitating suggestions
and consumption of historical data.
There are a few possible ways to access and supervise data
for Medicare beneficiaries.
BLUEBUTTON2.0
The initiative aims to:
Empower patients, so that every patient can control their
own medical data.
Break down obstructions that prevent patients from data
access.
Have patients control their own health records from any
device or application of their choice.
Let patients choose the provider that best meet their needs.
Give a patient’s chosen provider secure access to their
healthcare data.
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3. Conclusion
As the US healthcare environment continues to shift from volume to value, a patient-centric
approach becomes more important than ever. With Blue Button 2.0, patients will be better
informed of their health and therefore, will have to assume more responsibility for their own
care. By leveraging claims data to serve the Medicare population, this initiative provides a wide
range of options to manage and improve patient health. Using Blue Button 2.0 data across
different kinds of applications improves the quality of individual care and accelerate the transi-
tion to population health management.
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Population Health and Care management
Population Health Management tools can help organizations identify and stratify
at-risk populations, thereby enabling customized health management programs
for health care beneficiaries. Many a time the capability of such tools to offer
insights about patients is either errored or insufficient owing to incomplete
data. With Blue Button 2.0, organizations can leverage data generated
outside of their organization to derive insights for their own benefit. A more
complete analysis of patient condition, pattern recognition for patient
behavior or provider prescription, medication adherence etc. would be possi-
ble with the availability of complete patient history.
One such use case is for providers using an EHR as their main workflow tool, but
require patient alerts. EHRs do not have the complete data across healthcare settings to offer
that functionality which could be resolved by plugging Blue Button 2.0 data.
Health care
providers can be
alerted when their patients
are transported to an
emergency department, or
another hospital
Primary care
physicians will be
alerted almost immedi-
ately when their
patients are
hospitalized.