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I've been reading quite a bit about all of the consumer oriented mobile health apps that have shown up lately.  There's been a lot of buzz around this especially given the recent Consumer Electronics Show that just concluded (thankfully).  There's also been quite a bit of discussion about a recent mobile health app that works with Health Vault. All these apps are simply creating new mobile silos of information, or worse yet, requiring us to go through some third party cloud storage in order to manage and view it.  I want my damn data and I want you to give it to ME so that I can analyze it.  It's my health.  Let me do with the data what I want easily, without having to hack my tablet , or use your website.  At the very least, give me the ability to export the data to a spreadsheet. Patients (and consumers) want to use a variety of different applications.  We want to be able to collect that data and do stuff with it.  Right now, I've got two separa...

Chris W. brings up  Blue Button  on the  Ask me a Question  page, and a few weeks ago it popped up again into my radar screen.  In case you've been in hiding for the past year, Blue Button is the name of a VA initiative to enable vets to download their clinical information in an ASCII text format from the VA patient portal MyHealtheVet .  It's based on a Markle Foundation specification which has gotten quite a bit of attention . Recently the Office of Personnel Management sent a letter   to health plans participating in the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP).  I found an interesting quote in the letter (I underlined the interesting part): Supplying your members with the simple, low-cost and readily available Blue Button  function will strengthen your contractual HIT obligations under FEHBP, align with the  Meaningful Use standards laid out by Health and Human Services (HHS), and most  importantly, empower your mem...