- The US government has proposed a new nationwide system for easy access and sharing of digital medical records.
- The system involves more than 60 tech companies uniting to create a central system that can be used by healthcare and mediclaim providers.
- It involves using AI chatbots to help patients note their symptoms and receive help for chronic illnesses such as obesity and diabetes.
The US government is looking to change how US citizens store and share their health records. US President Donald Trump yesterday announced a new system that will store the medical history of all citizens in electronic formats that will be easy to share with various medical facilities, such as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, as well as with mediclaim providers. The government is also working towards creating a consolidated medical ID, akin to your social security number, to allow quicker access to medical history.
The project will be developed with the involvement of over 60 leading technology companies, such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, etc. It will be supervised by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which expects to ship an Interoperability Framework in the first quarter of 2026.