Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

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A typical digital validation in health care must be recognized by software on the patient’s device as well as sites at multiple institutions: providers, payers, pharmacies, and more. Therefore, standards are a prerequisite to digital insurance cards. Luckily (as the saying goes), there are many to choose from.

The digital card contains the typical information an insurance card needs to display, along with information that the payer uses to verify that the card is legitimate. Furthermore, the card can contain useful information about the patient’s identity, policy, benefits, and coverage. The patient can control which information is shared with a given provider.

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