About iBlueButton
Vital health information in your hands, for you and your loved ones
Our team of physicians and technologists has designed iBlueButton® to specifically serve Medicare beneficiaries, Veterans, the Military and their family covered by TRICARE. With iBlueButton you have at all times your medical information in your hands to better manage your healthcare, avoid preventable medical errors and receive safer and more effective care.
iBlueButton won the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Industry Innovation competition for its Blue Button® program, to give Veterans and Americans covered by Medicare or TRICARE the ability to download their health records from these federal programs’ patient portals. iBlueButton is the first native mobile application approved in April 2018 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Americans covered by Medicare to make use their Medicare Blue Button data to receive safer healthcare.
For Medicare beneficiaries and their caregivers, iBlueButton lets you automatically login into your account at MyMedicare.gov and retrieve the last four years of your medical history automatically translating on your phone or tablet your Medicare claim financial information into an organized medical history in all of its useful details. iBlueButton organizes all your information – with lists of medications, conditions, immunizations and allergies – as well as a detailed medical history for you to review, research, annotate, share and print. Easily find and review all your physician visits, hospitalizations, imaging studies, tests and get contact information for all your providers.
Importantly, iBlueButton 8.0 generates safety warnings about the medications you take and recommended best practices for your medical conditions. iBlueButton also works with the MyHealtheVet and TRICARE online portals to retrieve your Blue Button health records from the VA and the Military Health System and assemble your different records into one interactive Summary Record.
For users on Apple iPhones, iBlueButton now also integrates with the Apple Health app, and can pull medications and conditions from users’ health records available in the Health app. In addition to incorporating these Apple Health app data into its Summary Record, iBlueButton also generates important safety warnings for the medications, as well as care guidelines for the conditions brought in from user’s health records available via the Apple Health App.
Upon the launch of iBueButton 8.0 in January of 2019 – and so that our users can fully experience the value of iBueButton, including its new important safety-warning features – Humetrix is making the app free for a limited introductory time.
iBlueButton offers these key benefits:
- Secure and Private - Unlike most personal health applications, iBlueButton stores your information on your own personal mobile device, where it is securely encrypted. Under your sole control, your personal health information is retrieved by your app from the data source (e.g., Medicare) and goes directly on your mobile device where it is securely stored. None of your data is processed or stored in the cloud or seen by Humetrix as you do not create an account with us. Your health information remains privately kept by you on your mobile device, with no risk of tampering or hacking in the cloud. Humetrix neither sees, stores, shares, sells or makes use of your personal information. You can back up your data stored on a phone or tablet to Google’s iCloud, where only you can retrieve it and view it.
- Life and Cost Saving - On average every year, a Medicare beneficiary sees seven different physicians and most of the time any one of these physicians will not have a view of the full medical history of their patients, which can be the cause of medical errors, unnecessary tests, and avoidable healthcare expenses. Veterans and military personnel and their families experience these same healthcare issues, as their care takes place not only in VA and military health facilities, but also in the private sector. iBlueButton helps you prevent dangerous medical errors by having with you, anytime and anywhere, your critical medical history.
- Personalized Safety Warnings - Whether it is about the medications you currently take, a new one recently prescribed, an existing or new medical condition, iBlueButton automatically generates safety warnings and best care practices based on well-established guidelines.
- All in Your Hands - iBlueButton pulls and organizes all records into a Summary Record, with all critical information in easy to view sections (medications, conditions, etc.) and your detailed medical history (physician visits, hospitalizations, etc.). This Summary Record is available for you at all times to review, research and annotate your health information because it is stored locally on your phone or tablet for ultimate privacy and security, and to make it immediately accessible even if you have no internet connection.
- You in Control - iBlueButton gives you control over your health records or that of your loved ones. With iBlueButton you can look up, research, and annotate medications and side effects, understand obscure medical terminology, and be informed to effectively manage your family’s healthcare with your physicians. With the tap of a button, you can also note medical record errors or mark sensitive information as private that you may not want to share with some providers or family members when sending or printing your summary record with the Share function of the app.