Blue Button Co-Design Challenge

Informational Webinar

6.19.13

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On Today’s Call:

• Adam Wong, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

• Rebecca Mitchell-Coelius, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

• Patricia Salber, Health Tech Hatch

• Jean-Luc (“JL”) Neptune, Health 2.0

• Graeme Ossey, Health 2.0

Agenda:

• Challenge Background and Goals

• Blue Button Overview

• Crowdsourcing ideas

• Overview of Challenge Details

• Q&A

ONC and i2 Goals

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• Better Health, Better Care, Better Value through Quality Improvement

– Further the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services

– Highlight programs, activities, and issues of concern

• Spur Innovation and Highlight Excellence

– Motivate, inspire, and lead

• Community building – Development of ecosystem

• Stimulate private sector investment

A Brief History

• First used by VA in 2010 on the myHealtheVet portal. 1 million downloads in first year.

• Adopted by CMS, DoD, Aetna, United, and others

• = Potential access to 1/3 of country!!

Patients: the Most Underutilized Part of the Health System

Only 10% to 20% of outcomes are determined by health care.

Patient Engagement = Better Care

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Suffer a health consequence frompoor communcation among providers

Experience a Medical Error

Hospital Readmit within 30 Days

36%

28%

13%

19%

13%

More Activated Patient

Less Activated Patient

49%

Source: AARP Survey of patients over 50 with 2 or more chronic conditions

Market Opportunity

Source: Rock Health

Meaningful Use Supports Patient & FamMeaningful ily

Engagement Stage 1

2011-2012

Post-Visit Summary

Stage 2

2014

Secure Patient

Messaging

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View, Download, Transmit

Stage 3

2016

Patient-Generated

Health Info?

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Blue Button Plus?

Blue Button Sample Data Files

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What’s next?

Liberation

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MU2

Structure

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CCDA

Automation

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Push / Pull

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Health Tech Hatch

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• Facilitates Patient Codesign: – Crowdsource ideas

– Patient/Consumer iterative feedback

– Crowdvote winners

• Winning ideas from ideas@healthtechhatch.com – Link my medical device data with my other health data

– Simplify management of multiple chronic conditions

– Make it easy to add rich contextual information (e.g., living situation, language, dietary & religious preferences) to my health history

– Help me understand what conditions I am at risk for and what preventive services I need (and where to get them)

• Next steps – Post concepts on HealthTechHatch.com

– Engage with patient codesigners over time

– Incorporate feedback that makes sense

Challenge Goals

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• Build support for Blue Button Plus by engaging three crucial communities: – Patients through crowd sourcing of application ideas, co-design,

and public voting on winning products – Companies and application builders through a public

competition and prize money – Developers by rewarding open source developer tools that

make it easier to build Blue Button Plus enabled applications

• Expand our understanding of how patients want to use their clinical data, and what products they want to see developed.

• Increase the number of fully enabled, Blue Button Plus tools and applications in areas of high priority for patients

Submission Requirements

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Patient Applications:

• Brief Description of the Product

• Slide Deck

• Working Application (.zip file)

Developer Tools

• Brief Description of the Product

• Slide Deck

• GitHub Link

Review Criteria The winners of the Patient Application category will be determined by a combination of the review panel (two-thirds) and public voting (one-third); public voting will be enabled on the co-design site upon closing of the submission period on August 5. • Innovative use and integration of Blue Button Plus • Innovative use of Blue Button patient data • Application design and ease-of-use • Relevance to crowd-sourced ideas and participation in co-design Open Source Developer Tools • Code readability, maintainability, and extensibility • Quality of code documentation • Value added by the tool

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Timeline Patient Applications • August 5: Final Submission Due • August 6-21: Patient Applications review period, by

review panel and public voting Developer Tools • July 8: Final Submission Due • July 9-19: Developer Tools review period • July 22-26: Announce Developer Tools winners (All

submissions deemed of sufficient quality will be posted on a public website)

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Prizes

Patient Applications:

First Place $20,000

Second Place $10,000

Third Place $5,000

Developer Tools

Three Best $5,000 each

Not to mention: recognition, publicity, credibility and reach!

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Questions?

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www.health2challenge.com

Contact Graeme:

graeme@health2con.com

Co-design Questions:

www.healthtechhatch.com

info@healthtechhatch.com