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 Office of Personnel Management has asked all health insurance carriers in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program to add the Blue Button to their websites. The Blue Button will allow patients ...

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 ...

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 ...

In August 2010, President Obama told veterans they soon would be able to go to the Veterans Affairs Department website, “click a simple blue button, download or print your personal health records so ...

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 ...

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)-- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it is offering a $50,000 prize to the first team that builds a personal health record (PHR) using the Blue Button℠ ...

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 ...