President Donald Trump and his top health officials are pursuing a new initiative that will allow people to share their personal health and medical records with doctors and hospitals.
Technology giants Apple, Amazon, Google and Open AI as well as health industries companies UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health are among more than 60 companies that have agreed to develop standards to share health information across computer systems.
Trump touted the idea of eliminating redundancies such as filling out paperwork at multiple health providers offices.
"This will allow patients to easily transmit information from one doctor to another," Trump said during a July 30 briefing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz.
Trump emphasized the initiative will be voluntary and require patients to opt in. He added there will be no centralized, government-run database storing patients' personal records.
