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Trump administration's digital health tracking system gives tech giants access to medical records | The plan has raised plenty of privacy concerns


During an event announcing the initiative yesterday, President Trump said, "For decades, America's health care networks have been overdue for a high-tech upgrade and that's what we...

The move is supposed to allow easier access to health records across the nation, bringing personal healthcare into the digital age, but there are plenty of concerns about the security of the data and the possibility that it could be exploited. "The existing systems are often slow, costly and incompatible with one another, but with today's announcement, we take a major step to bring health care into the digital age," Trump said. CEO Geoff Cook told the Associated Press that this might include labs or medical tests that the app could use to develop an AI-driven analysis of what might help users lose weight.

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