What is the Blue Button Initiative?

VA’s Blue Button allows you to access and download your information from your My HealtheVet personal health record into a very simple text file or PDF that can be read, printed, or saved on any computer. It gives you complete control of this information – without any special software – and enables you to share this data with your health care providers, caregivers, or people you trust.

New to Blue Button? See how you can use the Blue Button by GETTING STARTED 

What does the Blue Button look like? Take a look at all our RESOURCES 
Or you can check out sample files with All Data, By Date Range, or By Data Class.

One Million Blue Button Users - Veterans Talk to Markle Foundation

In August the one millionth patient used the Blue Button to down data from a Personal Health Record. In addition to users of My HealtheVet and TRICARE Online from the government, private sector partners like UnitedHealth Group, Aetna and Kaiser Permanente are adopting it as well. In recognition of this "one millionth" milestone, the Markle Foundation, one of the catalysts for the early development of the Blue Button, has released a wonderful video highlighting the positive experiences of three Veterans who use the VA Blue Button. Learn more

What does the President think about the Blue Button?

See what President Obama had to say about the Blue Button while speaking to the Disabled American Veterans in August 2011.

DoD Military Service Information on
My HealtheVet and Blue Button

Key portions of the Department of Defense (DoD) Military Service Information are now available in My HealtheVet. This new feature is available to military retirees and/or Veterans discharged after 1979. To see this they simply need to:

• be a Veteran enrolled at a VA health care facility
• be registered on My HealtheVet
• have an upgraded account (In-Person Authenticated)
  

Viewing DoD Military Service Information in My HealtheVet is simple. It is easy to use, private and secure. Anytime, anywhere the Veteran is, as long as they have Internet access, they can view their:

• Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes
• Pay Details
• Service Dates
• Deployment Periods
• Retirement Periods

Having DoD Military Service Information available in My HealtheVet will give Veterans easy, convenient access to their military employment history. It will let them see their information on demand. They can use the VA Blue Button to print or download their DoD Military Service Information. They can share this information when looking for a new job or considering changing careers. They can also share this with their employer to show past job skills and experience.

Note: The name "Blue Button," the Blue Button logo and the slogan "Download My Data" are registered service marks of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, an agency of the United States Government. All Rights Reserved. VA will grant a perpetual royalty-free non-exclusive license to use the Blue Button marks to software developers and end users on request.