Google, Amazon and Others Pledge to “Make Health Tech Great Again”

Healthcare and information technology companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google, OpenAI and Cleveland Clinic, promised to improve the healthcare technology experience for patients and providers during a White House “Make Health Tech Great Again” event, according to a news release.

At the event, hosted yesterday with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), more than 60 companies pledged to work with the Trump Administration to improve patient outcomes and reduce provider burden by the first quarter of 2026.

Twenty-one of the networks promised to meet the CMS Interoperability Framework criteria, which has two parts: patient access and empowerment and provider access and delegation. Adopters of these criteria will become CMS Aligned Networks, according to the news release.

Thirty of the companies have promised to promote these changes within the coming months, specifically through apps that deliver diabetes and obesity management, promote the use of conversational AI assistants and promote a shift to digital check-in methods instead of paper intake forms.

“For decades, bureaucrats and entrenched interests buried health data and blocked patients from taking control of their health,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HHS Secretary, said in the news release. “That ends today. We’re tearing down digital walls, returning power to patients, and rebuilding a health system that serves the people. This is how we begin to Make America Healthy Again.”

This effort is part of the CMS’ Health Tech Ecosystem initiative to modernize the nation’s digital healthcare system, which CMS says places undue stress on patients, providers and the national budget.

In the event of a patient accidentally receiving another’s protected health information, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released a statement saying that the affected parties will receive timely HIPAA breach notifications.

Yesterday’s meeting was made possible in part by the request for information (RFI) issued by CMS and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) in May 2025. The request asked for stakeholder advice on ways to modernize the nation’s digital health ecosystem and garnered approximately 1,400 comments in a little more than a month.

CMS also plans to add an app directory on Medicare.gov to serve as a resource for digital health tools.

“We have the tools and information available now to empower patients to improve their outcomes and their healthcare experience,” Mehmet Oz, M.D., CMS Administrator, said in the news release. “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 U.S. healthcare system for the benefit of patients and providers.”

A full list of companies that have taken the pledge is available here.