BenefitsPRO November 13, 2020
Philips Johnson

The nearly half of Americans who receive health insurance from their employers will soon find themselves on the short end of the stick when it comes to benefiting from innovations in digital health. That’s because new federal rules that make it easier for many consumers to use smartphone apps to manage their health don’t apply to commercial insurers that offer employer-sponsored health insurance.

Announced early this year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the rules are designed to help patients easily access and share their medical records and insurance claims data, as well as any of their clinical data owned by an insurer. But as...

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Topics: Apps, ASTP/ONC, CMS, Congress / White House, Digital Health, Employer, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Technology
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