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Production Access Checklist

A checklist to help your organization prepare to apply for production access to the Blue Button 2.0 API.

What is this Checklist?

We’ve created this checklist to help your organization prepare to apply for production access to the Blue Button 2.0 API. We encourage you to consider each of these questions carefully in preparation for your application demonstration for the CMS team and be prepared to discuss your answers. Not all of these questions may apply to your application.

Basic Information

Over the course of the process, we’ll need some basic information about your application:

Adherence to the Blue Button 2.0 API Terms of Service & General Privacy Guidelines

The following section is intended to help us understand what your application is doing to protect the sensitive data of Medicare beneficiaries.

Ensuring Your Privacy Policy Meets the Basics

Ensuring Your Privacy Policy Helps Inform and Protect Medicare Beneficiaries

Does your privacy policy…

Also, affirm whether or not your privacy policy addresses the following questions:

This section helps prepare you for questions around your understanding and treatment of Medicare Beneficiary consent to your service.

Use and Disclosure

Individual Access

Accountability