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13 responses to "The dirty little secret about ‘Blue Button’"

1. # Gerald Theis commented on February 22nd, 2011:

   Enter the “RED BUTTON”
   The launching of our patent pending ER health solution technology system will be unveiled during my presentation at the Wireless Technology Asia Summit in Singapore 3-24-3-25..
   First responders are “one tap away” from your vital medical data during a personal medical emergency or disaster event anywhere anytime. This proactive system will rewrite disaster preparedness planning.
   The interoperable webapp solution was designed to empower all citizens, not just a seagment of the population to save lives and avoid adverse events allowing ER physicians and first responders a knowledge-based assessment and evidence-based intervention at or BEFORE point of care!!

   2 minutes ago

2. # Neil Versel commented on February 22nd, 2011:

   Gerald, that sounds like another untethered PHR that relies on the patient to keep everything up to date. Doctors won’t use it because they don’t trust patient-entered data and it doesn’t fit their workflow. I’ve not seen any evidence to the contrary for any PHR not directly linked to an institutional EMR. Period.

3. # Enoch Choi, MD commented on February 22nd, 2011:

   You can use my name, I tweeted openly about this

4. # Barbara Duck commented on February 22nd, 2011:

   The Blue Button for Medicare, same issue but at least it was made a bit more public-from December 2010. Middle ware or an API required for user friendly formats.

   http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2010/10/medicaregov-blue-button-download-for.html

   Having written code in VB years ago I still am driven to inquire about and inspect formats:)

5. # Margalit Gur-Arie commented on February 25th, 2011:

   Folks, you’re going to have to start reading my stuff…. Just kidding, but I wrote about this back in September and it is actually worse: the CMS version and the VA version are totally incompatible. Collaboration anybody?
   More, here:
   http://onhealthtech.blogspot.com/2010/09/red-white-and-blue-buttons.html

6. # Neil Versel commented on March 1st, 2011:

   Please do start reading Margalit’s blog. :)

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