Blue Button Technology Highlighted At Consumer Health IT Summit

The Blue Button program for sharing patient data was a major focus of the Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, Modern Healthcare reports. The summit kicked off National Health IT Week (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 9/16)...

Lygeia Ricciardi -- director of consumer eHealth at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT -- said nearly 500 health care organizations have joined the Blue Button Pledge Program. She said the organizations could make the data sharing technology available to more than 100 million individuals (Modern Healthcare, 9/16).

During the summit, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park called the Blue Button initiative a "movement" that physicians, large health care providers, investors and insurance companies have embraced (Brewin, NextGov, 9/16)...