Health insurance startup Oscar has a new way to get all your medical details in one place for your doctor

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June 9, 2017 2:23 PM

Oscar Health is compiling a "Clinical Dashboard" to give doctors a more comprehensive picture of patients' health beyond their electronic health records.

Oscar Health chief technology officer Alan Warren

Oscar Health, the $2.7 billion health-insurance startup, is joining the ranks of businesses trying to pull healthcare data into a single platform that might be accessible to doctors treating a patient.

Electronic health records allow doctors to get some information about your medical history. But they don't get it all — like information from an emergency room visit in another state, or notes from telemedicine appointments.

Some of that data can be important, but it's not easy to gather.

As an insurer, Oscar is in a place to pull that information together, because it manages health insurance claims. That puts all of a patient's medical history in one place, no matter the source,

Oscar isn't the only one to build one of these platforms. Google Health had a product that tried to do this, and Health IT giant Epic Systems operates a service called MyChart that helps patients see their information and communicate with doctors. There are also services that will store your personal health information though these are mainly managed by patients instead of doctors.

If you're an Oscar member (which, in 2017, Oscar had about 105,000 people enroll in its health plans), your doctor will have access to the Clinical Dashboard.

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