Blue Button Mash Up Challenge

Webinar Presentation

Thursday, July 19, 2012

On today’s call:

Adam Wong

Management and Program

Analyst

HHS/ONC

JL Neptune

Senior Vice President

Health 2.0

Damon Davis

Special Assistant, Consumer e-Health

at ONC

HHS/ONC

Austin Cohen

Challenge Manager

Health 2.0

Agenda for Today’s Meeting

ONC and the Investing in Innovation (i2) Program

Blue Button Mash Up Challenge

Q&A About the Challenge

ONC and i2

i2 Goals

• 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

ONC’s Consumer Engagement Strategy: The Three A’s

Catalyze the development of tools and services that help consumers (and their providers) take action with their health information.

Support a shift in attitudes about the traditional role of patients and providers and the role technology can play in empowering patients to be more engaged partners in care.

Make it easier for patients and consumers to get secure, timely access to their personal health information. Access

Attitude Action

Access

Attitude Action

Blue Button ® Mashup Challenge

Damon L. DavisSpecial Assistant to the National Coordinator, Consumer e-Health

Health Information Technology

Improving patients’ experience of care within the Institute of Medicine’s 6 domains of quality: Safety, Effectiveness, Patient-Centeredness, Timeliness, Efficiency, and Equity.

Better healthcare

Keeping patients well so they can do what they want to do. Increasing the overall health of populations: address behavioral risk factors; focus on preventive care.

Better health

Lowering the total cost of care while improving quality, resulting in reduced monthly expenditures for Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP beneficiaries.

Reduced costs

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The Three-Part Aim for an Improved Healthcare System

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Why Engage Consumers in Health?

Consumer Engagement = Better Care

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Suffer a health consequence from poor communcation among providers

Experience a Medical Error

Hospital Readmit within 30 Days

13%

19%

13%

36%

28%

More Activated PatientLess Activated Patient

49%

Today’s Reality vs. Potential for Consumers

• 9% have mobile app to manage health

• 10% have a personal health record (PHR)

• 20% have accessed their health info online

• 27% have tracked their weight, diet, exercise routine online

• 80% of Internet users seek health info online

• Use of mobile for health has doubled in 1 year

• 52% would use a smart phone to monitor health

•65% are interested in using a medical device to monitor their condition

Increasing ACCESS to Health Data

Growing Use of Blue Button Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA) Dept of Defense (DoD) Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) Aetna United MANY MORE COMING!

Bluebuttondata.org

Give me my data

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The Challenge

Applying the Three Part Aim: To participate in the challenge, entrants must mash up Blue Button® data – data about a patient which the patient can download directly using a health plan’s, doctor’s or hospital’s Blue Button®  function – with information from two or more of the three part aim categories.

Blue Button Mashup Challenge

Better healthcare

Better health

Reduced costs

$

Helping Consumers Take Action With Their Health Information

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The Winning App

• Data from the three part aim categories

• Commercialization plan

• Is the app simple and intuitive to use?

• App must garner high patient engagement rates

Evaluation Criteria

Data from the three part aim categories:1. Does the app help

individuals achieve at least two components of the three-part aim?

2. Does the app help individuals achieve all three components of the three-part aim?

Evaluation Criteria

Commercialization plan:1. Thoughtful approach to

commercializing the app Viability of the plan and potential for broad adoption of the app

2. Viable plan for initial and ongoing technical and support capacity to meet anticipated appusage and future enhancement

3. Special consideration for demonstration of plans in place (e.g. letter of intent, formalizedagreement)

Evaluation Criteria

Is the app simple and intuitive to use?1. App is available on broadly

used platform

Evaluation Criteria

App must garner high patient engagement rates:1. Uses Blue Button® downloads as the

primary source of data about a consumer’s healthor health status

2. Is the app interactive with easily understood data mashups?

3. How useful are each of the chosen mashups to a wide audience?

4. Are specific actionable suggestions provided to the user based on meaningful mashup of Blue Button® (consumer-specific) and other sources of data?

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Submission Period

• Submission Period Begins: June 5, 2012• Submission Period for Entries Ends: September 5,

2012• Evaluation Process for Entries Begins: September 7,

2012• Evaluation Process for Entries Ends: September 17,

2012• Winners notified: September 21, 2012• Winners Announced: Health 2.0 San Francisco Fall

Conference, October 7-11, 2012

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Prizes

• Total: $75,000 in prizes

• First Place: $45,000 plus conference exhibition opportunity

• Second Place: $20,000

• Third Place: $10,000

Questions?

www.health2challenge.org

Contact Jean-Luc Neptune or Austin Cohen at:

challenges@health2con.com