June 3rd was the kick-off for an amazing Challenge – the Blue Button Patient CoDesign Challenge. Developers everywhere are being invited by the Office of the National Coordinator to develop apps and other tools to use patient data, acquired via the Blue Button. You might be thinking: why is that so amazing? Because the entire Challenge has been designed to actively involve the ultimate users of the tool – patients. Imagine that!
Here are the details:
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/blue-button-co-design-challenge/
From now until June 11th, patients (which includes almost all of us) are invited to go to Health Tech Hatch to post their ideas about how they want to see their data used to create tools that they can use themselves or with their doctors. There are already over 50 ideas already posted, which include:
- Please help my wife manage our children’s immunizations
- A tool that simplifies the management of chronic multiple conditions,
- Make my prescription management stink less (my favorite)
