pharmaphorum August 1, 2025
The Trump administration wants to build an interoperable digital health platform for handling patient records, medical operating systems, and apps – helped by the private sector – that can improve patient care.
The initiative will be supported by tech giants, including Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Google, and OpenAI, and will focus on developing a framework that would be administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which said it would “improve patient outcomes, reduce provider burden, and drive value.”
The emphasis is on voluntary participation from companies, healthcare systems, insurers, and other health actors, rather than rulemaking, and CMS is hoping to start running the first ‘Aligned Networks’ in the first quarter of 2026.
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