The digital disruption of health
“We have the tools and information available now to empower patients to improve their outcomes and their healthcare experience,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said in a statement. “For too long, patients in this country have been burdened with a healthcare system that has not kept pace with the disruptive innovations that have transformed nearly every other sector of our economy. With the commitments made by these entrepreneurial companies today, we stand ready for a paradigm shift in the US healthcare system for the benefit of patients and providers.”
The intention is to make all this data more interoperable, which should also make it more actionable, as well as more available to patients and caregivers. The initiative sees Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Anthropic, and OpenAI promising to work with health systems and the administration to bring all the fragmented data together.
The barrier toward better interoperability seems to have been the need to keep that data secure; with this agreement government and tech firms now hope to improve data sharing and expand the kinds of apps patients can use.
