Enabling 

Consumer-Directed 

Health Data at CMS
IS HE?
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WH
Mark Scrimshire
CMS BlueButton Innovator
http://ekivemark.com
mark.scrimshire@newwave.io
703.623.2789
@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.
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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
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Unique Medicare Members since 2010
There are big opportunities…
54,000,000Medicare Beneficiaries (2014 est.)
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29,000,000MyMedicare Portal Users
An Essential 

First Step
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…but it left the patient to
do the heavy lifting
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”
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Why create 

an API when

the Industry

has done that?
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CMS Blue Button on FHIR
+
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Fast Health Interoperability Resources
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Making a contribution to 

the FHIR Community
CMS Synthetic

Public Use Files 

(SYN-PUF)
FHIR

Patient
ExplanationOfBenefit
11K Patient Profiles
1.1M EOB Profiles
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80 Participants
12 Teams
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A busy 2 days
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And the Winners were: @POC
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Code-a-thon
Health
Tech Policy
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CMS FHIR Patient Profile
https://api.bbonfhir.com/api/v1/Patient?_format=json
{"resourceType":"Patient",
"id":"421118",
"meta":{
"versionId":"1",
"lastUpdated":"2016-03-22T16:38:17.578-04:00"},
"identifier":[
{
"system":"CCW_BENE_CRNT_VW.BENE_ID",
"value":"0"}],
"name":[{
"family":["00013D2EFD8E45D1"],
"given":["f5"]}
],
"birthDate":"1923-05-01",
"address":[{
"line":["1625 N GEORGE MASON DR, 344, ARLINGTON, VA",
“222053683”]
}
]
}
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CMS Blue Button Claim Profile
https://api.bbonfhir.com/api/v1/ExplanationOfBenefit?_format=json
{"resourceType":"ExplanationOfBenefit",
"id":"421383",
"meta":{"versionId":"1",
"lastUpdated":"2016-03-22T16:38:17.578-04:00"},
"identifier":[{"system":"CCW_PDE_FACT.PDE_ID",
"value":"233324492503674"}],
"provider":{"reference":"Practitioner/421386"},
"prescription":{"reference":"MedicationOrder/421384"},
"patient":{"reference":"Patient/421118"},
"coverage":{"coverage":{"reference":"Coverage/421134"}},
"item":[{"sequence":1,
"type":{"system":"http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ActCode",
"code":"RXDINV"},
"servicedDate":"2008-12-05",
"adjudication":[{"category":{"system":"CMS Adjudications",
"code":"Patient Pay Amount"},
"amount":{"value":10,"system":"USD"}},
{"category":{"system":"CMS Adjudications",
"code":"Total Prescription Cost"},
"amount":{"value":350,"system":"USD"}
}]
}]
}
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Get to know the FHIR Rest API
https://api.bbonfhir.com/api/v1/Patient
https://api.bbonfhir.com/api/v1/ExplanationOfBenefit
?_format=json|xml
&{Search_parameters}
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Patients take 

ownership of their data
I Authorize
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Join in
https://github.com/HHSIDEAlab/BlueButtonFHIR_API
https://github.com/HHSIDEAlab/bluebutton-text-to-fhir
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Keep Up To Date
http://go.cms.gov/bluebutton
Mark Scrimshire
CMS BlueButton Innovator
@ekivemark
http://ekivemark.com
mark.scrimshire@newwave.io
703.623.2789

BlueButton on FHIR - HxRefactored 2016