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Introduction

This implementation guide describes the CARIN for Blue Button® ^[*] Framework and Common Payer Consumer Data Set (CPCDS), providing a set of resources that payers can display to consumers via a FHIR API. See the Table of Contents for more information.

Authors

• Primary
  • Amol Vyas (Cambia Health Solutions) - amol.vyas@cambiahealth.com
  • Pat Taylor (Blue Cross Blue Shield Association) - pat.taylor@bcbsa.com
  • HL7 Financial Management Workgroup
• Secondary
  • Ryan Howells (Leavitt Partners, LLC) - ryan.howells@leavittpartners.com
  • Saul Kravitz (MITRE) - saul@mitre.org
  • Josh Lamb (UPMC) - lambj4@upmc.edu
  • Mark Roberts (Leavitt Partners, LLC) - mark.roberts@leavittpartners.com
  • Igor Sirkovich (Smile CDR, Inc.) - igor@smilecdr.com
  • HL7 Payer/Provider Information Exchange

Acknowledgements

The CARIN Consumer Directed Payer Data Exchange Implementation Guide is also known as the CARIN IG for Blue Button® Implementation Guide. This IG was developed using FHIR Shorthand syntax and the SUSHI tookit, a free, open source toolchain from the MITRE Corporation. Valuable guidance on FSH and FHIR slicing was provided by Chris Moesel. The capability statements were developed with tools and valuable guidance from Eric Haas.