At the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) HealthTech Ecosystem Live! First Wave Launch event last week, we shared an early look at Oura Health Records, a new experience that brings members’ electronic health records (EHR) into the Oura App. For members managing chronic conditions or seeking proactive health guidance, Health Records delivers the personalized, context-aware insights they need by connecting clinical data with daily biometrics. Oura Health Records is entirely opt-in, and members remain in full control of their data and privacy at every step. 

Advancing Oura’s Commitment to Healthcare Interoperability

While this marks an important milestone, it’s just one step in a broader, multi‑year effort. It builds on the pledge we made last year at the White House, committing to building technology and processes that expand access to personal health information across CMS-aligned networks and personal health records. Specifically, Oura committed to two core areas:

1. A Conversational AI Assistant: With patient consent, connect Oura’s AI assistant to CMS-aligned networks or personal health record apps, granting access to patient-selected health information to deliver personalized insights, educational content, and appropriate guidance toward professional care.

2. Diabetes and Obesity Prevention and Management: With patient consent, securely access patient-selected health data from CMS-aligned networks or personal health record apps to deliver tailored guidance and direct patients to professional care as needed.

Consumers are already using wearables and health apps to track their health, activity, and daily habits, but their clinical information often lives in separate, hard-to-access systems. This disconnect can make it harder to see the full picture of health, empower our members to ask the right questions, or intervene early, especially for conditions that require ongoing management. 

Bringing the Pledge to Life 

Within the Oura App, members will soon be able to import and unify health records from multiple providers into a single personal health record, turning static reports into a living, longitudinal record and view clinical information in context, and making it easier to connect their clinical results with their lived experience. 

Oura Health Records will be Oura’s first electronic health record (EHR) integration and a major milestone in bringing clinical data into the Oura experience, delivering the personalized, context-aware insights they need by connecting clinical data with daily biometrics so Oura understands their full health story.

Our Privacy-First Approach 

From day one, Oura has been built on a foundation of privacy and data protection, and that remains central as we introduce clinical records into the experience. 

A few principles guide everything we do:

  • We encrypt Oura Member data and use advanced technical and organizational safeguards, including anonymization or pseudonymization of personal data, strict access controls for the data we process.
  • The CMS Health Tech pledge is a voluntary showcase of innovation in consumer health technology and does not create any data-sharing arrangement, obligation, or access channel between Oura and CMS, HHS, or any other government entity. 
  • We comply with stringent data protection laws, including the GDPR, and provide clear tools so people can access, delete, or correct their personal information.
  • Connections to health records are strictly opt-in. Members decide if and when they want to connect records, which sources to use, and what is shared. They can opt-out and revoke access at any time. 

What’s Next 

Oura’s vision is to help people stay connected to their health every day, by bringing together electronic health records, continuous biometric signals from Oura Ring, and responsible, clinically informed conversational AI so people can better understand their information and navigate to the right care and resources at the right time. 

The CMS First Wave Launch is an early glimpse of that work, and we’ll keep building on Oura Health Records and our AI features with privacy, consent, and our members at the core of every decision.