Blue Button Plus Overview

Blue Button Plus gives consumers the ability to obtain their health care records in both human-readable and machine-readable format, and to send them where they choose. This enables a consumer to do everything from printing a physical copy to sharing it with a third party application. 

The Blue Button Plus initiative advanced the implementation standards, tools, and services associated with the Blue Button to provide consumers with automated updates to their health information in a human readable and machine readable format. For the Push Scenario, we have successfully demonstrated the automation of the private and secure transmission of personal health data to a specific location of the consumer’s choosing. For the Pull Scenario, we are in the process of allowing a third party application of the consumer’s choosing to privately and securely access personal health data on demand.