MobiHealth DC - October 19, 2011

Source: MobiHealth DC - DC/MD/VA Chapter

Topics and Speaker Bios: 

Hit the Blue Button! - Doctors for America
"The VA, Aetna, and Walgreens are already on the Blue Button train - we need to get on board before it leaves the station."

Blue Button List

Can we add your Blue Button to the list? 

Please send us your Blue Button link to be added to the Blue Button list.

Blue Button (#healthapps)

United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

http://www.va.gov/bluebutton/

Blue Button (Download My Data)

1. My HealtheVet United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

https://www.myhealth.va.gov/mhv-portal-web/anonymous.portal?_nfpb=true&_...

2. United States Department of Defense (DoD)

https://www.tricareonline.com/portal/page/portal/TricareOnline/Portal

3. United States Centers for Meidcare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

https://www.mymedicare.gov/

Rainbow Button (Upload - Show Me My Data)

1. Adobe’s Blue Button Health Assistant

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeingovernment/2010/10/adobe-wins-top-honors-f...

2. BlueMeter

http://vsis.co/myBlueMeter

3. Northrop Grumman

http://www.northropgrumman.com/apps/

4. Microsoft HealthVault

http://www.healthvault.com/bluebutton

Coming soon

1. Aetna

2. Walgreens

3. Patientslikeme

History

2 August 2010

President Obama announced the creation of a new “Blue Button”

http://www.va.gov/open/videos/BlueButton.asx

Blue Button Initiative

http://www.va.gov/bluebutton/

13 September 2010

VA's Levin: 'Blue button' first step to lifetime EHR

http://www.govhealthit.com/news/vas-levin-blue-button-first-step-lifetim...

25 September 2010

Blue Button Challenge

http://www.health2challenge.org/2010/08/10/blue-button-challenge/

http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21201

6 October 2010

Medicare, veterans to get downloadable health info

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20018827-56.html

7 October 2010

‘Blue Button’ Provides Access to Downloadable Personal Health Data

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/07/blue-button-provides-access-do...

1 November 2010

Blue Button" Technology Pushed to Give Patients Instant Access to Medical Records

http://www.markle.org/news-events/markle-news/blue-button-technology-pus...

4 November 2010

Vet Affairs tech chief to describe ‘Open Government’ campaign

http://blogs.umass.edu/policy/2010/10/29/vet-affairs-tech-chief-to-descr...

25 January 2011

"Veterans can now download their electronic medical records with a click of the mouse."

President Obama says veterans can now access their electronic medical records online

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jan/31/barack-ob...

1 February 2011

Can Veterans Download All Medical Records?

http://jerry88acwv-americancoldwarveterans.blogspot.com/2011/02/can-vete...

15 February 2011

VAi2 - VA's second Industry Innovation Competition - Enhancements and Novel Uses of VA's "Blue Button" Personal Health Record

http://www.va.gov/VAi2/IndustryCompetition.asp

21 February 2011

Application Was Created in Support of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs “Blue Button” Web Portal for Direct Access to Personal Health Data

http://www.emrandhipaa.com/news/tag/peter-levin/

22 February 2011

Veterans get mobile access to their eHealth records Blue Button allows vets to see and share health records

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9210760/Veterans_get_mobile_acces...

19 March 2011

Blue Button,Portals and User Generated Health and meaningful use

http://ekive.blogspot.com/2011/03/hcsd11-blue-buttonportals-and-user.html

1 May 2011

Park defends plain-text format of ‘Blue Button’

http://www.meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/05/01/park-defends-plain-text-form...

17 May 2011

Let's talk about Rainbow Button Initiative as our HIE at HealthCa.mp/dc on 6/8/11

http://ekive.blogspot.com/2011/05/let-talk-about-rainbow-button.html

http://ekivemark.posterous.com/patients20-health2con-the-rainbow-button-...

9 June 2011

2nd Annual Health Data Initiative Forum - Announcements and Action Beats

Peter L. Levin, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, and Chief Technology Office, VA

http://www.hhs.gov/live/

http://www.iom.edu/Activities/PublicHealth/HealthData/2011-JUN-09.aspx

11 June 2011

#health2dev One team wants to merge NCI Thesaurus with VA Blue Button

http://ekivemark.posterous.com/health2dev-one-team-wants-to-merge-nci-th...

16 June 2011

Park: Federal health tools, data help docs achieve meaningful use

http://www.govhealthit.com/news/park-federal-health-tools-data-help-docs...

23 June 2011

US CTO Aneesh Chopra "Over 300,000 Americans have downloaded their blue button."

http://vsis.co/BlueButton300K

24 June 2011

The Blue Button Approach to Sparking Change

http://vsis.co/BlueButtonSparkingChange

27 June 2011

Q&A: Todd Park on the bridge between HHS' Health Data Initiative and meaningful use

http://vsis.co/BlueButtonMeaningfulUse

28 June 2011

VA, DoD healthcare apps prepare for next wave of features #healthApps #health20 #innovation

http://vsis.co/BlueButton-mHealth

13 July 2011

Hit the Blue Button! - Doctors for America
"The VA, Aetna, and Walgreens are already on the Blue Button train - we need to get on board before it leaves the station."

http://vsis.co/BlueButtonDoctorsforAmerica

15 July 2011

VA launches contest to expand Blue Button
The competition starts July 18, and VA will announce the winner Oct. 18, VA said. The first prize is $50,000.

http://vsis.co/BlueButtonContest

http://vsis.co/BlueButtonContestAnnouncement

In a systematic review of telemonitoring technologies in heart failure, the results are that "Most studies demonstrated improvements in outcome measures, including improved quality of life and decreased hospitalizations."

Self-care of Heart Failure (HF) is challenging. Common barriers are physical and cognitive limitations, difficulties coping with treatment, lack of knowledge, and personal struggles. Following dietary, exercise, and adherence to medications regiment (e.g., ACE Inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-blockers, digitalis – lanoxin, diuretics, diuretic potassium sparing, aldactone spironolactone, and potassium) are key success factors. With such information overload, self-care management of HF is typically poor, and readmission rates are high.

Self-care of HF requires patients’ decision-making process of maintenance, management, and confidence (self-efficacy expectancies) that patients are in control of health behaviors, symptoms monitoring, treatment adherence, and the response to symptoms when they occur.

In heart failure, self-care includes maintenance care, such as taking medicines regularly and on time, eating a low-salt diet, preventing acute illnesses by getting appropriate flu and pneumonia vaccinations, exercising regularly physical activities and maintaining heart-healthy lifestyle by limiting alcohol and tobacco use.

An important part of heart failure self-care is managing the disease by recognizing worsening symptoms and taking the appropriate action to address them. This requires monitoring daily weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and blood sugar; observing changes in signs and symptoms of heart failure; and recording daily medication and daily activity 

The self-care confidence addresses the patient’s perceived ability to engage in each phase of self-care, such as understanding causes, disease diagnosis and condition, and complication; adhering to medication instruction and treatment plan; following-up appointments and tests (e.g., EKG, echocardiogram, cardiac catheterization, coronary angiogram, stress testing, and transesophageal echocardiogram); and recognizing signs and symptoms.

• Educating and teaching heart failure patients to be engaged in self-care are key successful factor in treating their disease.
• Patient-Oriented Information Visualization (POIV) provides a stepped approach to patient education and counseling.

• Check the “Self-Care Management of Heart Failure using BlueMeter” at > http://vsis.co/vContact

I hope that you can join us to our Ground Rounds on Friday 4/22 at 12:15 PM on:

Visualizing Central Line-Associated Blood

Visualization provides insights to personal-caring. You can use Vision to Think, "... visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition …” but using Vision to Act is Powerful!

Peer pressure is, also, very powerful! Scientists, like Robert Cialdini, that study human behavior have shown that that social influence can be used for good. Behavioral scientists, like Albert Bandura, tell us that to change my behavior, you need to suggest to me actions that I believe are realistic and effective--Efficacy is a very strong motivator.

Then actionable health-oriented visualization should provide tips for very simple activities, endorsed by health experts, and should present peers’ achievements and achievable benchmark indicators to help people get motivated to change their health behaviors.

• What do you think? Can Visualization and Peer Pressure join forces to prepare you to change your health behavior?

Please add a new comment here, twitt your thoughts to @visualmatics or contact us at > http://vsis.co/vContact