Blue Button
With one click of the “Blue Button,” an individual can download all the data that a healthcare organization has about them.
With one click of the “Blue Button,” an individual can download all the data that a healthcare organization has about them.
With one click of the “Blue Button,” an individual can download all the data that a healthcare organization has about them. Blue Button empowers individuals to download and review their health data, easily share their health data with third parties, and track their progress. What began as a way for Veterans to download health data grew to include all Medicare beneficiaries and has now catalyzed a movement for private companies to provide similar access to health data. Amida’s founding team co-conceived and led the design, implementation, and production deployment of the Blue Button personal health record (PHR) at the VA, and supported its implementation at CMS and the DOD’s Military Health System.
Amida has built a library of open source Blue Button and health informatics components that clinical service providers, drug and insurance companies, population health management companies, and employers can use to keep their customers, patients, caretakers, and team informed and healthy.
To learn more, download Amida’s Blue Button Overview deck.
HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is the industry-leading platform specification for health data exchange.
HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is the industry-leading platform specification for health data exchange. FHIR provides the syntax and structure by which sensitive health information is exchanged between authorized stakeholders. Amida is among the most experienced teams available to design and implement FHIR-enabled systems for integration with external entities.
Our expertise includes FHIR APIs (including CMS integration), FHIR mapping, and FHIR-based data conversion and data exchange. We are proficient in all industry-standard FHIR implementation guides, conformance testing tools, and FHIR servers.
Open source infrastructure has many advantages, including: easier customization, better interoperability, greater base of service providers, superior cybersecurity, and lower total cost of ownership.
Open source infrastructure has many advantages, including: easier customization, better interoperability, greater base of service providers, superior cybersecurity, and lower total cost of ownership. Many proprietary merchants still offer “take it or leave it” packages, and further bind their customers to a restricted number of approved vendors for installation, configuration, or operation of their information services. In sharp contrast, open source applications are an economical way to stay on the edge of innovation, maintain latitude of provider choice, and deliver robust, rugged, and scalable solutions to internal stakeholders and external partners.
Many healthcare payers and providers are unable to leverage their data to improve quality of care.
Many healthcare payers and providers are unable to leverage their data to improve quality of care. Amida helps clients use their data to quickly and inexpensively assess internal performance in near-real time. Our tools connect to existing client infrastructure, ingest source healthcare data, and calculate electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) using a streaming ingestion solution and dashboard. With these insights, payers and providers can proactively identify services that need attention and quickly drive outcome improvements.
Amida is a leader in health informatics and data analytics.
Amida is a leader in health informatics and data analytics. Our expertise spans healthcare information systems, data standards, analytic methodologies, and business operations. We gather, organize, and interpret health data sets from a variety of sources and formats, and we produce critical insights that enable our clients to make better use of their data. With these insights, we develop context-informed recommendations to achieve administrative requirements and goals so that our clients can improve patient care and drive better health outcomes.
Amida has a distinguished track record of cybersecurity innovation and business operations.
Amida has a distinguished track record of cybersecurity innovation and business operations. We provide our customers with the expertise, standard operating procedures, and practical tools that keep them ahead of the problem, and strategic communications to help resolve problems when they occur. Data is the final frontier of cybersecurity.
Amida is an expert in the collection, aggregation, reconciliation and synthesis of the data that protects security and privacy. Enterprises can’t secure what they can’t find – or don’t even know they have. Identifying enterprise vulnerabilities and protecting users’ privacy is paramount. Amida’s innovative data management solutions can help tackle today’s most vexing cybersecurity challenges.
Complex electronic systems are assembled using components and processes from entities all over the world.
Complex electronic systems are assembled using components and processes from entities all over the world. Every node in this global supply chain creates a risk of security issues, especially when economic or ideological interests are misaligned. Secure manufacturing alone is not enough to combat hardware attacks.
Amida is building a prototype security technology based on Design for Security and Trust (DFST) that spans the entire supply chain. This hardware security solution will be robust against attacks, regardless of their origin. Our goal is to provide an industry-wide methodology for the design, manufacture, distribution, and monitoring of secure semiconductor devices.
Clients’ FeedbackAmida successfully built a proof-of-concept harmonization engine that identifies and intelligently weights the likelihood of duplicate matching patient records.
Read full testimonialAmida successfully built a proof-of-concept harmonization engine that identifies and intelligently weights the likelihood of duplicate matching patient records. Reducing fragmentation and ensuring providers have access to a comprehensive health profile goes a long way in improving the overall quality of patient care.
Bo DagnallChief Technologist and Strategist, Provider Segment (VA, DHA, Digital Health)
Clients’ FeedbackThis application helps our client maximize the utility of their data assets, eliminating the need to chase charts.
Read full testimonialAmida helped us roll out a simple-to-use tool that enables us to search our client’s massive inventory of Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs) quickly, dramatically reducing the time needed to build HEDIS scores. This application helps our client maximize the utility of their data assets, eliminating the need to chase charts. The outcome is lower costs and better care.
Russ ThomasCEO
Clients’ FeedbackAmida’s Indaba platform enables our world-wide team of experts to gather research data and supports their efforts to arrive at consensus.
Read full testimonialAmida’s Indaba platform enables our world-wide team of experts to gather research data and supports their efforts to arrive at consensus. The platform consolidates our research data into a common structure, enabling us to methodically conduct our evaluations and produce high quality and compelling findings.
Laura NeumanDirector, Rule of Law Program
Clients’ FeedbackAmida’s expertise in payer and provider data management enabled their team to complete the mapping with only moderate guidance from my team.
Read full testimonialUnifying our transactional claims systems required complicated data mapping. Amida’s expertise in payer and provider data management enabled their team to complete the mapping with only moderate guidance from my team, freeing us to work in parallel on the parts of the project where our focus was needed.
William WaldersChief Information Officer
Clients’ FeedbackAmida delivers deep subject matter expertise at the intersection of emerging technology standards.
Read full testimonialAmida delivers deep subject matter expertise at the intersection of emerging technology standards, such as FHIR, and evolving regulations, such as the ONC and CMS interoperability and patient access rules. Leveraging their expertise, we’re able to deliver superior products to our state Medicaid partners. Amida developed custom FHIR servers in one-third the time it would have taken our developers. In addition to their role as FHIR subject matter experts, they guided our database and ops teams towards more agile operating procedures, something we’re been striving to do internally for years.
Sashi RavipatiSenior Vice President – Architecture & ETS
Clients’ FeedbackAmida helped the NYS OMH to successfully deploy the VA’s open source EHR/EMR (VistA) across its 24 inpatient psychiatric hospitals and hundreds of clinics throughout the State.
View Full TestimonialAmida helped the New York State Office of Mental Health to successfully deploy the VA’s open source EHR/EMR (VistA) across its 24 inpatient psychiatric hospitals and hundreds of clinics throughout the State. This was an extremely complex project, and our primary System Integrator (SI) was having difficulty moving the project forward. Amida got the project on track, assisted in managing the vendor, and added tremendous value to the process.
John NortonFormer Acting Deputy Commissioner and CIO
Clients’ FeedbackWe value our relationship with Amida and actively seek opportunities to partner for health data services as this level of performance is rare.
View Full TestimonialThe technical quality of Amida’s designs was outstanding, in both formal design deliverables and informal and exploratory technical discussions. The high quality of their work, coupled to the business and technical integrity of their team, enabled MedicaSoft to deliver excellent public sector health IT applications with confidence. We value our relationship with Amida and actively seek opportunities to partner for health data services as this level of performance is rare.
Mike O’NeillCEO
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