Federal Health Plans to Offer Blue Button Digital Health-record aAcess

All health insurance options in federal health plans will soon allow members to download a digital version of their health records using a technology called Blue Button, the Office of Personnel Management announced.

Most plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan already offer a personal-health-record option. However, the Blue Button technology, whose use was spearheaded by the Veterans Affairs Department, will make it easer to share digital records with family members and physicians...