The Trump administration has introduced a new digital health tracking system meant to modernize American healthcare. It would do this by letting people upload their personal health data and medical records to apps and systems run by private health and tech companies. While the plan is being promoted as a way to make health records easier to access and to support personalized healthcare, it has also raises serious privacy concerns.
During the announcement, President Trump said, “For decades, America’s health care networks have been overdue for a high-tech upgrade and that’s what we are doing… The existing systems are often slow, costly and incompatible with one another, but with today’s announcement, we take a major step to bring health care into the digital age.” The new system, managed by the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is meant to make it easier for patients and healthcare providers to share information and to provide more personalized tools for better health decisions.
