Becker's Healthcare August 15, 2018
Jessica Kim Cohen

More than 500 groups have registered to build apps using Blue Button 2.0, an open application programming interface tool developed by CMS, a senior White House official told Politico‘s Morning eHealth newsletter.

CMS launched the API to allow third-party apps and services to connect to and make sense of Medicare claims data. Apps developed with the Blue Button 2.0 API could flag harmful drug-drug interactions or alert clinicians if a patient has already received a certain test, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said during the agency’s Blue Button 2.0...

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Topics: Apps, CMS, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Technology
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