Top tech companies to work with Trump administration on improving health care data access for older, disabled Americans
The best technological companies will work with the Trump administration to create digital tools to facilitate the task of Americans and disabled people to access their health care data through the government’s Medicare program.
Trump said that the initiative “will allow patients to easily transmit information from one doctor to another, even if these are different networks and using different file holding systems, whatever the system they use, they are all transferable. The new standards will also allow patients to access patients to access their own personal health records.”
More than 60 companies, including Oracle and Microsoft, have agreed to connect.
The medical contributor of CBS News, Dr. Celine Gounder, said on Thursday “CBS mornings” that, although this initiative facilitates information sharing, there are confidentiality problems.
“Health care systems, doctors – we are very well regulated in the way we use your medical information,” said Gounder. “But if this information discloses and go to an application that is not regulated in the same way – many applications earn money by selling data, your personal information.”
Gounder also noted that there are more than 20 states that continue the Trump administration for trying to use Medicaid data and give it to ice for the repression of immigration. Databases could potentially be shared with other federal agencies, such as IRS, ATF or DEA.
“There are real concerns about the integrity and transparency of data,” said Gounder.
In May, the Trump administration asked for the public’s contribution to the way of modernizing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services“Digital health care services.
The announcement comes on the 60th anniversary of the social security amendments, which were signed on July 30, 1965, and established Medicare and Medicaid.
Seema Verma, the chief of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the first Trump administration, was invited to attend the announcement of the White House. She now oversees the Division of Oracle Health and Life Sciences.
White House spokesperson refused to comment.
