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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for ‘‘Blue Button CoDesign Challenge’’
Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Award Approving Official: Farzad
Mostashari, National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology.
SUMMARY: Blue Button Plus represents
the technical standards and policy
levers that help patients make use of
their clinical and financial data in
technology such as personal health
records and health apps. All patients
whose providers use Meaningful Use
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Stage 2 certified technology have the
ability to view, download, and securely
transmit their clinical data from their
provider’s Electronic Health Record into
another product or holding place of
their choice. This is an enormous
opportunity for patient-facing, data
receiver applications that previously
struggled to collect complete and
accurate clinical data without manual
patient entry.
As part of the Department of Health
and Human Services digital services
strategy, the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC) is launching the Blue
Button Co-Design Challenge, intended
to increase the number of priority
patient-facing applications able to
receive clinical data via Blue Button
Plus. The Challenge will also uniquely
engage the patient community to teach
us what patients most want to do with
their clinical data by crowdsourcing
application ideas and incorporating
patients in product design.
The Blue Button Co-Design Challenge
builds upon previous ONC activities to
support consumer health and patient
access to their data. These include
Challenges such as Blue Button for All
Americans, the Blue Button Mash Up
Challenge, and the Health Design
Challenge.
The statutory authority for this
challenge competition is Section 105 of
the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L.
111–358).
DATES: Patient Applications category:
• June 3: Challenge announced at
Health DataPalooza
• August 5: End of Patient Applications
submission period
• September: Announce Patient
Applications winners
Open Source Developer Tools
category:
• June 3: Challenge announced at
Health DataPalooza
• July 8: End of Developer Tools
submission period
• July 22–26: Announce Developer
Tools winners
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Wong, 202–720–2866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The goals of the Blue Button CoDesign Challenge are:
• Build support for Blue Button Plus
by engaging three crucial communities:
a. Patients through crowd sourcing of
application ideas, co-design, and public
voting on winning products
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b. Companies and application
builders through a public competition
and prize money
c. Developers by rewarding open
source developer tools that make it
easier to build Blue Button Plus enabled
applications
• Expand our understanding of how
patients want to use their clinical data,
and what products they want to see
developed.
• Increase the number of fully
enabled, Blue Button Plus tools and
applications in areas of high priority for
patients.
In order to accomplish these goals, the
challenge will award prizes in two
separate categories:
1. The Patient Applications category
will use crowd sourced application
ideas as the topics for application
development. From the launch of the
challenge to June 7, anyone may post
ideas for applications (no more than 75
words), focusing on the use of patient
data enabled by Blue Button, on the
ideation forum. Concurrently, the public
will have until June 11 to vote on their
favorite ideas, the top three of which
will be announced as the topics for the
patient applications and integrated into
the submission review criteria.
Submissions must be posted on a codesign Web site where entrants will
participate in the co-design process,
incorporating public input and feedback
with potential end users, patients, and
patient advocates. First, second, and
third place awards will be given to the
three best applications.
To be eligible to receive a prize,
applications submitted must:
• Demonstrate use of Blue Button
Plus to receive patient clinical or
financial data into an existing or new
application
• Display the Blue Button logo
• Include a slide deck that describes
how patients would use this
application, which of the crowdsourced
product ideas inspired this application,
and how patient co-design impacted the
final product.
2. The Open Source Developer Tools
category is intended to ease the
implementation of Blue Button Plus for
future applications, and engage
developers around standards such as
consolidated CDA and DIRECT. Three
winners will receive awards and the
winning tools will be made available
through open source licenses.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the
Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under
this challenge, an individual or entity—
(1) Shall have registered to participate
in the competition under the rules
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promulgated by the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
(2) Shall have complied with all the
requirements under this section.
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall
be incorporated in and maintain a
primary place of business in the United
States, and in the case of an individual,
whether participating singly or in a
group, shall be a citizen or permanent
resident of the United States.
(4) May not be a Federal entity or
Federal employee acting within the
scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee
working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty
hours.
(6) Shall not be an employee of Office
of the National Coordinator for Health
IT.
(7) Federal grantees may not use
Federal funds to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications unless
consistent with the purpose of their
grant award.
(8) Federal contractors may not use
Federal funds from a contract to develop
COMPETES Act challenge applications
or to fund efforts in support of a
COMPETES Act challenge submission.
An individual or entity shall not be
deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal
facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the
facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities
participating in the competition on an
equitable basis.
Entrants must agree to assume any
and all risks and waive claims against
the Federal Government and its related
entities, except in the case of willful
misconduct, for any injury, death,
damage, or loss of property, revenue, or
profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from my
participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or
loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Entrants must also agree to indemnify
the Federal Government against third
party claims for damages arising from or
related to competition activities.
Registration Process for Participants
To register for this challenge
participants can access either the
https://www.challenge.gov Web site and
search for the challenge’s title, or the
ONC Investing in Innovation Challenge
Web site at https://www.health2con.com/
devchallenge/challenges/onc-i2challenges/.
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Amount of the Prize
• Total prizes: $50,000
• Patient Applications:
Æ First Place: $20,000
Æ Second Place: $10,000
Æ Third Place: $5,000
• Developer Tools: $5,000 each to the
three best solutions
Awards may be subject to Federal
income taxes and HHS will comply with
IRS withholding and reporting
requirements, where applicable.
Payment of the Prize
Prize will be paid by contractor.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be
Selected
The review panel will make selections
based upon the following criteria:
Open Source Developer Tools
• Code readability, maintainability, and
extensibility
• Quality of code documentation
• Value added by the tool
The winners of the Patient
Applications category will be
determined by a combination of the
review panel (two-thirds) and public
voting (one-third); public voting will be
enabled on the co-design site upon
closing of the submission period on
August 5.
Patient Applications
• Innovative use and integration of Blue
Button Plus
• Innovative use of Blue Button patient
data
• Application design and ease-of-use
• Relevance to crowd-sourced ideas and
participation in co-design
In order for an entry to be eligible to
win this Challenge, it must meet the
following requirements:
1. General—Contestants must provide
continuous access to the application, a
detailed description of the application,
instructions on how to install and
operate the application, and system
requirements required to run the
application (collectively,
‘‘Submission’’).
2. Blue Button Plus—Blue Button Plus
must be fully enabled within the
application, and the Blue Button logo
displayed.
3. HHS, ONC logo—The tool must not
use HHS’ or ONC’s logos or official seals
in the Submission, and must not claim
endorsement.
4. Acceptable platforms—The tool
must be designed for use with existing
web, mobile, voice, electronic health
record, or other platform for supporting
interactions of the content provided
with other capabilities.
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5. Section 508 Compliance—
Contestants must acknowledge that they
understand that, as a pre-requisite to
any subsequent acquisition by FAR
contract or other method, they may be
required to make their proposed
solution compliant with Section 508
accessibility and usability requirements
at their own expense. Any electronic
information technology that is
ultimately obtained by HHS for its use,
development, or maintenance must
meet Section 508 accessibility and
usability standards. Past experience has
demonstrated that it can be costly for
solution-providers to ‘‘retrofit’’
solutions if remediation is later needed.
The HHS Section 508 Evaluation
Product Assessment Template, available
at https://www.hhs.gov/web/508/
contracting/technology/vendors.html,
provides a useful roadmap for
developers to review. It is a simple,
web-based checklist utilized by HHS
officials to allow vendors to document
how their products do or do not meet
the various Section 508 requirements.
6. Functionality/Accuracy—A
Submission may be disqualified if the
application fails to function as
expressed in the description provided
by the user, or if the application
provides inaccurate or incomplete
information.
7. Security—Submissions must be free
of malware. Contestant agrees that ONC
may conduct testing on the application
to determine whether malware or other
security threats may be present. ONC
may disqualify the application if, in
ONC’s judgment, the application may
damage government or others’
equipment or operating environment.
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Additional Information
Ownership of intellectual property is
determined by the following:
• Patient Application category
entrants retain title and full ownership
in and to their submission. Entrants
expressly reserve all intellectual
property rights not expressly granted
under the challenge agreement.
• Developer Tools category entrants
are required to post their tools on
GitHub to be made available via open
source.
• By participating in the challenge,
each entrant hereby irrevocably grants
to Sponsor and Administrator a limited,
non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide
license and right to reproduce,
publically perform, publically display,
and use the Submission to the extent
necessary to administer the challenge,
and to publically perform and
publically display the Submission,
including, without limitation, for
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advertising and promotional purposes
relating to the challenge.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719
Dated: May 28, 2013.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology.
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SUMMARY: HHS is soliciting nominations
for a new, non-Federal member of the
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Specifically, the position is for someone
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and current curriculum vitae or resume.
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the financial impact of Alzheimer’s
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Alzheimer’s disease or a related
dementia who is not a Federal
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for ``Blue Button
Co-Design Challenge''
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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Award Approving Official: Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
SUMMARY: Blue Button Plus represents the technical standards and policy
levers that help patients make use of their clinical and financial data
in technology such as personal health records and health apps. All
patients whose providers use Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified
technology have the ability to view, download, and securely transmit
their clinical data from their provider's Electronic Health Record into
another product or holding place of their choice. This is an enormous
opportunity for patient-facing, data receiver applications that
previously struggled to collect complete and accurate clinical data
without manual patient entry.
As part of the Department of Health and Human Services digital
services strategy, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology (ONC) is launching the Blue Button Co-Design
Challenge, intended to increase the number of priority patient-facing
applications able to receive clinical data via Blue Button Plus. The
Challenge will also uniquely engage the patient community to teach us
what patients most want to do with their clinical data by crowdsourcing
application ideas and incorporating patients in product design.
The Blue Button Co-Design Challenge builds upon previous ONC
activities to support consumer health and patient access to their data.
These include Challenges such as Blue Button for All Americans, the
Blue Button Mash Up Challenge, and the Health Design Challenge.
The statutory authority for this challenge competition is Section
105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-
358).
DATES: Patient Applications category:
June 3: Challenge announced at Health DataPalooza
August 5: End of Patient Applications submission period
September: Announce Patient Applications winners
Open Source Developer Tools category:
June 3: Challenge announced at Health DataPalooza
July 8: End of Developer Tools submission period
July 22-26: Announce Developer Tools winners
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Wong, 202-720-2866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The goals of the Blue Button Co-Design Challenge are:
Build support for Blue Button Plus by engaging three
crucial communities:
a. Patients through crowd sourcing of application ideas, co-design,
and public voting on winning products
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b. Companies and application builders through a public competition
and prize money
c. Developers by rewarding open source developer tools that make it
easier to build Blue Button Plus enabled applications
Expand our understanding of how patients want to use their
clinical data, and what products they want to see developed.
Increase the number of fully enabled, Blue Button Plus
tools and applications in areas of high priority for patients.
In order to accomplish these goals, the challenge will award prizes
in two separate categories:
1. The Patient Applications category will use crowd sourced
application ideas as the topics for application development. From the
launch of the challenge to June 7, anyone may post ideas for
applications (no more than 75 words), focusing on the use of patient
data enabled by Blue Button, on the ideation forum. Concurrently, the
public will have until June 11 to vote on their favorite ideas, the top
three of which will be announced as the topics for the patient
applications and integrated into the submission review criteria.
Submissions must be posted on a co-design Web site where entrants will
participate in the co-design process, incorporating public input and
feedback with potential end users, patients, and patient advocates.
First, second, and third place awards will be given to the three best
applications.
To be eligible to receive a prize, applications submitted must:
Demonstrate use of Blue Button Plus to receive patient
clinical or financial data into an existing or new application
Display the Blue Button logo
Include a slide deck that describes how patients would use
this application, which of the crowdsourced product ideas inspired this
application, and how patient co-design impacted the final product.
2. The Open Source Developer Tools category is intended to ease the
implementation of Blue Button Plus for future applications, and engage
developers around standards such as consolidated CDA and DIRECT. Three
winners will receive awards and the winning tools will be made
available through open source licenses.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge, an individual
or entity--
(1) Shall have registered to participate in the competition under
the rules promulgated by the Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology.
(2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this
section.
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall be incorporated in and
maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and in the
case of an individual, whether participating singly or in a group,
shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
(4) May not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty hours.
(6) Shall not be an employee of Office of the National Coordinator
for Health IT.
(7) Federal grantees may not use Federal funds to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications unless consistent with the purpose of their
grant award.
(8) Federal contractors may not use Federal funds from a contract
to develop COMPETES Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in
support of a COMPETES Act challenge submission.
An individual or entity shall not be deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities participating in the
competition on an equitable basis.
Entrants must agree to assume any and all risks and waive claims
against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the
case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of
property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from my participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Entrants must also agree to indemnify the Federal Government
against third party claims for damages arising from or related to
competition activities.
Registration Process for Participants
To register for this challenge participants can access either the
https://www.challenge.gov Web site and search for the challenge's title,
or the ONC Investing in Innovation Challenge Web site at https://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/challenges/onc-i2-challenges/.
Amount of the Prize
Total prizes: $50,000
Patient Applications:
[cir] First Place: $20,000
[cir] Second Place: $10,000
[cir] Third Place: $5,000
Developer Tools: $5,000 each to the three best solutions
Awards may be subject to Federal income taxes and HHS will comply
with IRS withholding and reporting requirements, where applicable.
Payment of the Prize
Prize will be paid by contractor.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be Selected
The review panel will make selections based upon the following
criteria:
Open Source Developer Tools
Code readability, maintainability, and extensibility
Quality of code documentation
Value added by the tool
The winners of the Patient Applications category will be determined
by a combination of the review panel (two-thirds) and public voting
(one-third); public voting will be enabled on the co-design site upon
closing of the submission period on August 5.
Patient Applications
Innovative use and integration of Blue Button Plus
Innovative use of Blue Button patient data
Application design and ease-of-use
Relevance to crowd-sourced ideas and participation in co-
design
In order for an entry to be eligible to win this Challenge, it must
meet the following requirements:
1. General--Contestants must provide continuous access to the
application, a detailed description of the application, instructions on
how to install and operate the application, and system requirements
required to run the application (collectively, ``Submission'').
2. Blue Button Plus--Blue Button Plus must be fully enabled within
the application, and the Blue Button logo displayed.
3. HHS, ONC logo--The tool must not use HHS' or ONC's logos or
official seals in the Submission, and must not claim endorsement.
4. Acceptable platforms--The tool must be designed for use with
existing web, mobile, voice, electronic health record, or other
platform for supporting interactions of the content provided with other
capabilities.
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5. Section 508 Compliance--Contestants must acknowledge that they
understand that, as a pre-requisite to any subsequent acquisition by
FAR contract or other method, they may be required to make their
proposed solution compliant with Section 508 accessibility and
usability requirements at their own expense. Any electronic information
technology that is ultimately obtained by HHS for its use, development,
or maintenance must meet Section 508 accessibility and usability
standards. Past experience has demonstrated that it can be costly for
solution-providers to ``retrofit'' solutions if remediation is later
needed. The HHS Section 508 Evaluation Product Assessment Template,
available at https://www.hhs.gov/web/508/contracting/technology/vendors.html, provides a useful roadmap for developers to review. It is
a simple, web-based checklist utilized by HHS officials to allow
vendors to document how their products do or do not meet the various
Section 508 requirements.
6. Functionality/Accuracy--A Submission may be disqualified if the
application fails to function as expressed in the description provided
by the user, or if the application provides inaccurate or incomplete
information.
7. Security--Submissions must be free of malware. Contestant agrees
that ONC may conduct testing on the application to determine whether
malware or other security threats may be present. ONC may disqualify
the application if, in ONC's judgment, the application may damage
government or others' equipment or operating environment.
Additional Information
Ownership of intellectual property is determined by the following:
Patient Application category entrants retain title and
full ownership in and to their submission. Entrants expressly reserve
all intellectual property rights not expressly granted under the
challenge agreement.
Developer Tools category entrants are required to post
their tools on GitHub to be made available via open source.
By participating in the challenge, each entrant hereby
irrevocably grants to Sponsor and Administrator a limited, non-
exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license and right to reproduce,
publically perform, publically display, and use the Submission to the
extent necessary to administer the challenge, and to publically perform
and publically display the Submission, including, without limitation,
for advertising and promotional purposes relating to the challenge.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719
Dated: May 28, 2013.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2013-13128 Filed 6-3-13; 8:45 am]
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