In efforts to guarantee patient access to their lab tests, the nation's largest pharmacies are now promising to adopt the Blue Button personal health record. Walgreens, Kroger, CVS, Rite Aid, Safeway ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Patient access to electronic health information through the Blue Button project pioneered by the Veterans Affairs Department in 2010 ...

The Blue Button continues to grow. UnitedHealthcare has launched its Blue Button, implementing a Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Health and Human Services program that enables ...

The federal government is launching an initiative to make the increasingly popular Blue Button patient portal feature more automated. The goal is to provide patients with more ease and choices for ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday held its first White House hackathon. The topic: Blue Button 2.0. Ahead of the event, I spoke with two technologists, one from CMS and one from ...

The ice cream giant shut down operations and recalled prodcuts over listeria. — -- After a listeria outbreak that shut down Blue Bell Ice Cream operations and left three consumers dead, the ...

With Windows Blue, aka Windows 8.1, Microsoft is reintroducing a Start button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for ...

Love it or hate it, Windows 8's most significant user interface change is the Start screen and its accompanying Metro environment. It replaced the classic Start menu and is the first thing you'll see ...

I know there are still doubters out there, but from everything I've heard, the rumored Start Button is going to be part of Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1. I've heard from one of my good sources that ...

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. Maureen Nolan-Wilde was walking ...