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UNITED STATES, JUL 30 – More than 60 companies, including Google and Amazon, commit to a voluntary framework aimed at improving patient data sharing and managing chronic conditions, CMS said.
- Amid efforts to streamline health data access, the Trump administration is pushing a digital health initiative involving over 60 companies, including Google, Amazon, and the Cleveland Clinic, at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
- The initiative builds on a May effort by CMS to modernize digital health, with Kennedy pushing for wearable devices and telehealth to expand data collection and use.
- According to CMS officials, the system will include a library of apps on Medicare.gov, with features like conversational AI, QR codes, and patient check-in apps, requiring opt-in for data sharing.
- Officials say once set up, Noom will pull users’ medical records, and Dr. Mehmet Oz said `We have the tools and information available now to empower patients to improve their outcomes and their healthcare experience`.
- Privacy experts warn, with Jeffrey Chester calling it 'an open door for the further use and monetization of sensitive and personal health information' and Lawrence Gostin citing 'enormous ethical and legal concerns.
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President Donald Trump has announced a new private health tracking system, aimed at streamlining patient access to health records and wellness monitoring.
Trump administration's digital health tracking system gives tech giants access to medical records
During an event announcing the initiative yesterday, President Trump said, "For decades, America's health care networks have been overdue for a high-tech upgrade and that's what we are doing."Read Entire Article
US launches health data program
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration announced it is launching a new program that will allow Americans to share personal health data and medical records across health systems and apps run by private tech companies, promising it will make it easier to access health records and monitor wellness.
It will be easier for Americans to access their health records and get a better picture of their health going forward. On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced that the government is launching a new program that will allow patients to share personal health data with health systems and apps run by private technology companies. At the time, the president took the opportunity to joke about his own health.
ThePatriotLight - Trump Announces Health Tech to Make Health Records 'Easily' Accessible
ThePatriotLight - President Donald Trump announced a new health technology program that would “easily” allow patients to share their records from “one doctor to another,” adding that it will also “make it simple” for patients to access their health records. During a “Making Health Technology Great Again” event on Wednesday with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administ…
Washington, Jul 30 (EFE).- Donald Trump's government launched on Wednesday a technological system aimed at facilitating the exchange of medical data between different healthcare companies, with the aim of improving the monitoring of patients' clinical history. More than 60 companies — including large health insurers such as United Health and CVS Health, as well as technological giants such as Google, Amazon and Apple — have committed themselves …
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