Inside the White House Interoperability Pledge: What It Means for Healthcare Leaders

Healthcare Policy Update
Aug 05, 2025
Article Background

What’s happening

On July 30, 2025, TruBridge CEO Chris Fowler and other national health technology leaders attended an invitation-only White House and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) event where over 60 firms pledged to work collaboratively on a patient-centered health technology ecosystem, and 21 data networks pledged to meet the administration’s voluntary interoperability framework.

President Trump and HHS and CMS leaders, including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz attended the event, evidencing the Administration’s commitment to leveraging the private sector to accelerate progress toward national interoperability.

Of interest

The interoperability framework details the administration’s vision for a health technology ecosystem, which includes the following data sharing criteria:

Patients, using applications of their choice, can access their full health and insurance data.
Providers with identity verified credentials who are listed as active providers in the CMS National Provider Directory and who attest that their request is for treatment purposes can access patient data for treatment purposes.
Clinical documents and chart notes are returned automatically in machine- and human-readable formats following timely queries.
Participants agree to be displayed as a CMS aligned network and to update the CMS national provider directory.
All queries must meet security requirements.

Each category of health technology ecosystem participant includes its own framework-aligned criteria. For health systems and providers, this includes:

Joining a CMS aligned network.
Supporting real-time access to electronic medical information across systems.
Providing electronic medical information to CMS aligned networks, including structured data and unstructured clinical documents.

Why you should care

This initiative aims to make data sharing between patients and providers easier. By enabling frictionless, secure sharing of data its goal is to ensure both providers and patients are empowered to make better decisions. Also, in outlining this initiative, the administration has provided insight into how it views the health technology ecosystem.

Looking to learn more?

TruBridge can provide additional resources about the event and how TruBridge will work with CMS to create a patient-centered health technology ecosystem.

Read more about TruBridge’s experience at the White House event here.