August 4, 2025
The Trump Administration has announced a major initiative to modernize U.S. health care by partnering with tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. At the White House’s “Make Health Tech Great Again” summit, these companies committed to supporting a new, patient-centric digital health ecosystem aimed at improving outcomes, reducing provider burden, and driving value.
Led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the initiative focuses on two priorities: promoting a CMS Interoperability Framework to easily and seamlessly share information between patients and providers, and increasing the availability of personalized tools so that patients have the information and resources they need to make better health decisions.
CMS plans to add an app library to Medicare.gov to highlight trusted, personalized digital health tools focused on prevention, chronic disease management, and cost-effective care navigation.
CMS also provided an update on the progress made on foundational efforts in support of a new digital health ecosystem that enhances the beneficiary experience:
- Enhanced Plan Finder: CMS will update its own tools to enhance the beneficiary experience, such as the Plan Finder that helps Medicare beneficiaries select which plan is best for their personal needs. This update will ensure that beneficiaries can select plans that have their preferred providers and hospitals in network. All proposed plans would protect privacy, secure personal health information, and comply with HIPAA requirements.
- National Provider Directory: CMS has begun building a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based Application Programming Interface (API) to enable apps to find provider networks, participants, and relevant endpoints while also improving data quality and mapping complex provider hierarchies. The agency will launch the new provider directory's initial functionality and expand iteratively starting later this year.
- Modern Identity for Medicare.gov: CMS is working to add modern digital identity to Medicare.gov this year, exploring approaches that enhance security without disrupting current user accounts and services.
- Faster Blue Button Data: CMS is developing infrastructure to reduce the time between receiving claims and making them accessible through Blue Button, accelerating data availability for patients and developers. Additionally, FHIR-based digital insurance cards will be available to app developers and Medicare.gov users as soon as this year.
- Data at the Point of Care (DPC): CMS is working to integrate digital identity and National Provider Directory validation into DPC during its continued development.
- Trusted Exchange and CMS-Aligned Networks: CMS announced the new CMS-Aligned Networks concept based on the CMS Interoperability Framework. CMS is leading by example and plans to participate in trusted data exchange by responding to patient and provider queries and sharing Blue Button claims data through CMS-Aligned Networks as early as the first quarter of 2026. Patients will be able to access their data using modern identity solutions, without needing to set up accounts and remember usernames and passwords for each health-care website. This leap will help improve how patients can securely access and share their records across the healthcare ecosystem.
Read more about CMS’ Health Tech Ecosystem.
