On July 30, 2025, the Trump Administration, in collaboration with major tech and healthcare companies—including Amazon, Apple, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic—announced a sweeping initiative to modernize the U.S. healthcare system. The effort, unveiled during the White House’s “Make Health Tech Great Again” event, focuses on empowering patients, improving data sharing, and reducing administrative burdens through digital innovation.

Key Goals of the Initiative:

• Interoperability: CMS introduced a voluntary Interoperability Framework that enables seamless, secure health data exchange across platforms like EHRs, health networks, and apps.
• Patient Empowerment: Personalized digital tools will help patients manage chronic conditions, access medical records, and navigate care with conversational AI.
• Administrative Simplification: Companies pledged to help “kill the clipboard” by replacing paper forms with digital check-ins.

Major Commitments:

• Over 60 companies pledged to deliver new tech-enabled healthcare solutions by early 2026.
• 21 networks aim to become CMS-Aligned Networks under new interoperability criteria.
• 11 health systems and 7 EHR vendors will support patient access to data and digital tools.
• 30 companies will roll out apps for services such as diabetes management and AI-based symptom checkers.

CMS Updates and Innovations:

• Enhanced Medicare Plan Finder: Helps beneficiaries find plans with their preferred providers.
• National Provider Directory: Built on FHIR standards to improve provider search and data accuracy.
• Modern Digital Identity for Medicare.gov: Aims to streamline login and enhance security.
• Blue Button and Digital Insurance Cards: Accelerated access to claims data and digital ID tools.
• Trusted Exchange via CMS-Aligned Networks: Patients will be able to access and share data without juggling multiple logins.

This initiative builds on the CMS/ASTP request for information earlier this year, which received nearly 1,400 comments from stakeholders. It signals a major shift toward a secure, personalized, and patient-driven healthcare ecosystem.

Stay tuned as CMS prepares to launch a dedicated app library on Medicare.gov later this year.