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Administration of Consumer Trust Bundles for BlueButton Plus
National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) will administer the Consumer Trust Bundles, which are a way for participating patients and providers to indicate their involvement in the Blue Button Initiative. NATE has been operating its own Trust Bundles in production since November 2012. There will be an onboarding process where candidates interested in being part of the bundle demonstrate that they meet or exceed the requirements of the bundle, per its policy, and the actions to coordinate the technology will be very similar. More information can be found on the NATE’s website at [] .

Background
NATE is a not-for-profit association that was created to reduce barriers to appropriate health information exchange. In late 2013, NATE kicked off the first phase of its PHR piloting program. Working with electronic patient engagement vendors Humetrix, Microsoft HealthVault, NoMoreClipboard and several Health Information Service Organizations in three separate states, NATE and the pilot participants developed draft policies and procedures to enable trusted bidirectional exchange of protected health information between patients and their providers. This work was funded in part by ONC’s [|PHR Ignite Project]  and produced a [|report]  that includes these draft artifacts and presents the findings of the first phase. The ongoing pilot was highlighted at the [|2014 HIMSS Interoperability Showcase]  where all of its participants demonstrated the diverse use cases supported by the trust framework.

NATE and the BlueButton Plus Community
Phase 1 of the pilot leveraged the work of the Blue Button Plus community, which supports the sending of messages from providers to patients. In that pilot, they looked at ways to establish a trusted framework that would also enable patients to securely exchange health information back with their providers in a manner that their providers could reliably use the information received to make clinical decisions. There are also plans to expand stakeholder input and make improvements to the work done during phase one.

More information can be found on the NATE’s website at [] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">.

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