Mark Scrimshire, an HHS/CMS entrepreneur-in-residence, discusses the evolution of Blue Button and its vision to create a developer-friendly API for Medicare beneficiaries. The presentation emphasizes the importance of personal health data as a valuable tool and highlights opportunities for improving patient engagement through interoperability. Resources and tools for developers to contribute to this initiative are also shared.

1. Mark Scrimshire
HHS/CMS
Entrepreneur-In-Residence
@ekivemark
An Update for Payers
October 2015
BlueButton - Next Generation

2. @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
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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HHS
Entrepreneur
-in-Residence
Medyear CTO &
Co-Founder
HealthCa.mp
Chief Instigator
Ski Instructor
Big Data & Cloud
Technologist
Health & Social
Data Ninja
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4. @ekivemarkhttp://healthca.mp
Blue Button
Unleashes Personal Data
http://healthca.mp
2010
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5. 1.2M
Unique Medicare Members
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6. There are big opportunities
54,000,000Medicare Beneficiaries (2014 est.)
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7. An Essential First Step
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…but it left the patient to
do the heavy lifting

8. @ekivemark
https://leicalady.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/annie-admiring-paintingsmall.jpeg
People don’t want
their data
for it’s own sake…
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9. Our Health data
should be
a valuable tool
we put to good use
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toolbox_(6788494881).jpg
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10. 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”

11. Fast Health
Interoperability
Resources
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12. @ekivemark
What is FHIR?
Secure
Transport
Developer
Friendly
Structured
Data

13. Trust & Familiarity@ekivemark

14. BlueButtonCan be More than
Claims #BBonFHIR@ekivemark

15. Patient focused
Self-contained
Include reference Identifiers
Include patient profile subset
EOB = Adjudicated claim
One claim = One EOB
EOB has a GUID
The EOB
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16. A New FHIR EOB
Resource
What is it?
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17. dev.bbonfhir.com@ekivemark

18. dev.bbonfhir.com@ekivemark

19. Follow our progress, join us and contribute
• BlueButton Text to JSON Converter:
• https://github.com/ekivemark/python-bluebutton
• BlueButton On FHIR
• https://github.com/ekivemark/bbofuser
• HL7 - FHIR
• http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/http.html
• HL7 - WIKI
• http://hl7-fhir.github.io/index.html
• HAPI Server:
• https://github.com/jamesagnew/hapi-fhir
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20. @ekivemark
Mark Scrimshire
HHS Entrepreneur-in-Residence
(CMS)
@ekivemark
http://ekivemark.com
mark.scrimshire@cms.hhs.gov
703.623.2789