Blue Protect of California launched the brand new Member Well being File on Wednesday. It can make it simpler for members to entry their well being info throughout the insurer's app and web site.

The Member Well being File contains lab outcomes, immunizations, diagnoses, and circumstances. It additionally supplies entry to historic well being information and personalised well being reminders for preventative care and wellness recommendation. Moreover, members can obtain and share their well being file, print it, or e mail it to their care workforce or caregiver. The Member Well being File pulls real-time info from the insurer’s information hub, the Expertise Dice, which pulls information from a number of healthcare sources.

Oakland-based Blue Protect of California, which has 4.8 million members, is introducing an preliminary model of the Member Well being File for a choose group of Medicare Benefit members. The insurer will interact with these members to know what's working, what's not working and what might be finished higher, mentioned Jigar Shah, chief advertising officer at Blue Protect of California. The Member Well being File can be obtainable to all members by the top of the 12 months.

In 2025, Blue Protect of California plans to additional enhance the Member Well being File. These enhancements embody visibility into dependents' well being information, personalised advantages suggestions, and care administration plans for individuals with persistent well being circumstances.

In keeping with Shah, members are usually overloaded with a number of apps and paperwork to entry any such info. The Member Well being File simplifies this downside.

“What this does is accumulate all the knowledge in a single place. … So it's a central place the place our members can get all the knowledge with out having to obtain 5 completely different apps,” he mentioned in an interview.

Shah added that the introduction of this function comes at a time when sufferers are struggling to entry healthcare.

“Giving our members entry to appointments in our app in the identical place the place they entry their well being information [is helpful],” he mentioned. “They will see which well being reminders and preventative care they should work on, swap again to the appointment module after which make an appointment.”

Shah hopes the brand new function will in the end make his members' lives simpler.

“That is one thing that I need as a shopper and I do know my family and friends would need as properly,” he mentioned. “That is one thing that all of us need in healthcare: not having to take care of a number of completely different locations to go for our well being info.”

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