Information on bluebutton logins

[Mike Miller]

Hello Team,

We have created the login screen where the patient will be entering username and password so that we can fetch the data based on username and password from the blue button. Right now we are able to fetch the patient data based on patient Id. but not sure which API we should use to fetch the patient data based on the username and password of the patient. please redirect us to that API.

[Kirsten Hansen]

Hi Mike,

The Blue Button API uses the Medicare.gov login screen as the first step for a Medicare enrollee to provide permission to their data. However, it is against the Blue Button 2.0 Terms of service to store or access this login information (https://bluebutton.cms.gov/terms/).

 If you would like to maintain user accounts for your application, you are welcome to do so. However, those accounts would be separate from the Medicare.gov accounts used to authenticate by the end user. More information on authentication can be found here in our documentation: https://bluebutton.cms.gov/developers/#authorization

Once the user is authenticated, you can query the available resources to retrieve the patient, coverage, and Explanation of Benefits information. You can read more about calling the API in our documentation here: https://bluebutton.cms.gov/developers/#calling-the-api

Please let us know if you have any further questions. 

Kirsten Hansen

Product Manager

The Blue Button 2.0 API Team