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Dulcinea

(8,803 posts) Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:02 PM Wednesday

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data and medical records on new apps and systems run by private tech companies, promising that will make it easier to access health records and monitor wellness.

President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks on the initiative Wednesday afternoon in the East Room. The event is expected to involve leaders from more than 60 companies, including major tech companies such as Google and Amazon, as well as prominent hospital systems like the Cleveland Clinic.

The new system will focus on diabetes and weight management, conversational artificial intelligence that helps patients, and digital tools such as QR codes and apps that register patients for check-ins or track medications.

The initiative, spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds, could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1

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Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help (Original Post) Dulcinea Wednesday OP

Nothing will be kept private by this government or the tech companies that will sell our data. Lonestarblue Wednesday #1

The first thing they'll do is share this data with the health insurance companies, probably Mike 03 Wednesday #2

That sounds like the plan. Ritabert Wednesday #3

Private insurance companies have our data anyway. Heck, if you are on Medicare or Medicaid, they have it. Silent Type Wednesday #4

I feel like everybody, everywhere, has our info by now. slightlv Yesterday #5

Lonestarblue

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1. Nothing will be kept private by this government or the tech companies that will sell our data.

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:16 PM

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The only health records that will remain secret are Trump’s because what gets released publicly is fiction.

Mike 03

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2. The first thing they'll do is share this data with the health insurance companies, probably

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:24 PM

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charging them millions, so that in Trump's cold new world the health insurers will know who to insure and who to reject.

Nothing they do ever has an altruistic motive. There's always a catch.

Ritabert

(1,425 posts)

3. That sounds like the plan.

Reply to Mike 03 (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:26 PM

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Silent Type

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4. Private insurance companies have our data anyway. Heck, if you are on Medicare or Medicaid, they have it.

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Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:47 PM

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slightlv

(6,202 posts)

5. I feel like everybody, everywhere, has our info by now.

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 02:23 AM

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However, I won't be willingly uploading a buttload of PI to any new database, if I can help it. I can see where kennedy does a search for the most prescribed drugs, and then do something like outlaw them in order to "save costs."

I can definitely see something like this used for easy access to those of us on pain meds, mental health meds, and meds that may or may not assist in self-abortions. There is just too much obvious misuse possible (and probably, given this administration) that comes to mind to say "Hea... this sounds like an easy way to register for my appt!" Remember, they never do anything for us ordinary people to make our lives easier -- only harder. And they'd definitely like to see a large majority of us kick the damned bucked already!

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