HHS Data Plan Aims to 'Make Health Technology Great Again'

Voluntary Effort Calls for Standards, Empowering Patients, But What About Privacy? Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • July 31, 2025

The Trump administration launched an initiative to improve patient data interoperability, exchange and accessibility throughout the healthcare ecosystem. The effort asks tech firms, healthcare providers and insurers to voluntarily comply with standards and data sharing criteria.

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Dubbed the "Make Health Technology Great Again" plan, the effort is being spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The plan centers on promoting voluntary industry stakeholder compliance with a CMS Interoperability Framework, "an open, standards-based" infrastructure for secure health information exchange. It also ...