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3 unusual facts about The Blue Button


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The Blue Button specifically refers to the movement to help Americans access their own digital health data, alongside standards and interoperability work for additional open formats, namely Blue Button+, that build upon Meaningful Use regulation-related standards for electronic health records.

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Several Federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs, implemented this capability for their beneficiaries.

In October 2010, former US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, then- HHS CTO and now US CTO Todd Park, and VA CTO Dr. Peter L. Levin officially announced that VA and HHS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services were offering Blue Button downloads to Veterans and to Medicare beneficiaries.



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Glaucus atlanticus

atlanticus preys on other, larger pelagic organisms: the dangerously venomous Portuguese Man o' War Physalia physalis; the by-the-wind-sailor Velella velella; the blue button Porpita porpita; and the violet snail, Janthina janthina.