Payers Slow To Implement APIs To Allow Consumers To Share Health Data

Despite recent rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supporting interoperability and consumer access to health data, about 20% of Medicaid beneficiaries and 80% of people covered by an employer-based health plan are not able to direct their health data to digital health applications. This is because the payers have been slow to implement application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate the data exchange, according to recent data from Flexpa. Consumer access is part of a health information exchange where health care consumers can obtain their claims and clinical records. Consumers can also grant others permission to . . .