Washington (AP) – trump card The government announced it will launch a new program that will enable Americans to share personal health data and medical records between health systems and applications operated by private tech companies, which promises to make it easier for you to access health records and Monitor health.
More than 60 companies including major tech companies such as Google, Amazon and Apple, as well as healthcare giants such as UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health have agreed to share patient data in the system. The initiative will focus on diabetes and weight management, Conversational Artificial Intelligence This helps patients, as well as digital tools such as QR codes and applications to register patients for examination or track medications.
“For decades, the healthcare network in the U.S. has expired for decades,” President Donald Trump said at an event with the company’s CEO. “Existing systems are often slow, expensive and incompatible with each other, but with today’s announcement, we have taken a major step to bring healthcare into the digital age.”
The system is led by a government that has already freely shared high levels of personal data about Americans in a way Tested legal boundariespatients’ wishes can be placed in collision courses in doctor’s offices and expect their medical information to remain private.
President Donald Trump walked from the Marine One after arriving at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia DeMary Nickinson)
President Donald Trump walked from the Marine One after arriving at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia DeMary Nickinson)
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“There are huge ethical and legal issues,” said Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University. “Patients across the United States should be very worried that their medical records will be used in ways that harm them and their families.”
Officials at the Medicare and Medicaid Service Centers responsible for maintaining the system said patients will need to choose to share their medical records and data, which will remain safe.
The officials said patients would benefit from a system that allowed them to quickly call up their own records without the iconic difficulties, such as requiring the use of a fax machine to share files, which made them have done so in the past.
“We will make significant progress in how consumers use their records,” Dr. Dr. said. Mehmet Ozsaid at the White House event, the person leading the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
NOOM, a popular weight loss and fitness subscription service signed by the program, will be able to attract medical records after the system is expected to be launched early next year.
CEO Geoff Cook told the Associated Press that this could include labs or medical tests that the app could be used to develop AI-driven analytics to help users lose weight. Applications and health systems will also access information from their competitors. For example, NOOM can access a person's data from Apple Health.
“Now you have a lot of isolated data,” Cook said.
Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic, CEO of the hospital system, said patients who are treated at the Cleveland Clinic often have difficulty getting all medical records from individual providers. He said the new system would remove the barrier, which sometimes delays treatment or prevents doctors from making accurate diagnosis because they do not have a sufficient view of the patient’s medical history.
Seamless access to health app data, such as what patients are eating or exercising, will also help doctors manage obesity and other chronic diseases, Mihaljevic said.
“These applications give us an idea of the health of patients outside the doctor’s office,” he said.
CMS will also recommend a list of apps on Medicare.gov, designed to help people manage chronic diseases and help them choose health care providers and insurance plans.
Digital privacy advocates are skeptical that patients’ data are firmly stored.
However, the federal government has done nothing to regulate health applications or telehealth programs.
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CMS already has information on more than 140 million Americans enrolling Medicare and Medicaid. Earlier this month, federal agencies agreed to hand over their massive databases, including home addresses, to deportation officials.
The new plan will deepen the pool of information about patients with federal government and tech companies. Medical records often contain more sensitive information, such as doctors’ notes about conversations with patients and history of substance abuse or mental health.
“The program is an open door to further use and monetize sensitive and personal health information,” Chester said.
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