Published
August 01, 2025
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce applauds businesses who have stepped forward as partners in a new initiative led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to transform the U.S. healthcare system into a more patient-centric, digitally connected ecosystem.
Announced on July 30, 2025, at a White House event, this public-private commitment brings together more than 60 organizations—spanning healthcare, technology, and policy—to build a nationwide framework that empowers patients, strengthens care coordination, and promotes secure access to personal health data.
A Vision for Modernized, Patient-Centric Healthcare
Under this initiative, participants are working to develop concrete deliverables by Q1 2026, including efforts by 21 data networks to meet CMS’s new Interoperability Framework and become “CMS-Aligned Networks,” support from 11 major health systems and providers to advance patient engagement tools, and collaboration with 7 electronic health record (HER) vendors to eliminate outdated practices like paper intake forms. Practical applications will focus on chronic disease management, specifically diabetes and obesity, as well as the deployment of conversational AI for system for symptom checking and care navigation, and digital check in systems to streamline patient intake.
This effort builds on the foundation of CMS’s Blue Button 2.0, which is a secure, standards-based API that allows Medicare beneficiaries to access and share their health claims data with third-party applications, empowering them to make more informed healthcare decisions. This will reduce administrative burdens, close care gaps, and support innovative technologies such as AI, digital identity, and API-based data sharing.
Through industry stepping up and working together with the government we can set a new standard for how technology and data can serve patients through faster access to medical records, streamlined digital check-ins, and advanced tools for chronic disease management.
A Critical Moment for Collaboration
This initiative marks an important milestone in building a more connected and responsive healthcare system. It reflects a shared belief that patient empowerment and innovation can go hand-in-hand, provided there are guardrails in place to ensure transparency, accountability, and trust.
Through the Chamber’s Health Policy Center, the Chamber has long advocated for regulatory modernization, expanded digital access, and public-private partnerships to support innovation in health care. The Chamber also submitted comments in response to the National Institute’s of Health recent Request for Information on artificial intelligence, emphasizing the importance of reducing barriers to data sharing and promoting choice, flexibility, and trust.
Looking Ahead
This is a promising step forward in the national effort to improve healthcare outcomes, lower costs, and deliver a better experience for patients and providers alike. The Chamber looks forward to continuing to support CMS’s efforts to develop policies and partnerships that drive innovation and expand access across the healthcare system.
