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Employers turning to e-health records; Aim to create informed consumers.(News)(employee-health)
Business Insurance, April, 2006 by WOJCIK, JOANNE
Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK Employers that have been gathering and analyzing claims data from insurers and pharmacy benefit managers for years are beginning to turn the information over to their employees in the hope that this information will empower them to become more informed health care consumers.
While some employers are issuing individual statements that show how much was spent on each employee's health care during a given year, a few are going a step further and combining cost and clinical information to create comprehensive personal health records. When Round Rock, Texas-based computer manufacturer Dell Inc. announced earlier this month that it was giving its employees the option of automatically importing their compete medical claims history into...
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