Okay, Here's The Plan: Nosotros Plough All Our Wellness Data Over To Google, Amazon Together With Microsoft Together With Then... (Amzn; Goog; Msft)

...and then, I'm non certain what.
Good idea? Bad idea?

From CNBC, August 13:

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft too other tech giants desire to gear upwardly ane of the most broken things almost wellness care

There are many broken things almost the the United States of America wellness attention system. But ane of the biggest too most overlooked problems is that patients nonetheless uncovering it likewise difficult to portion their medical information betwixt doctors, especially those working inwards dissimilar hospitals.

It's a huge work for many reasons: It makes it harder for consumers to access the highest-quality care, too novel patients who walk into a infirmary are similar strangers — care-givers won't know if they convey an allergy or a chronic disease.

Some of the largest applied scientific discipline companies inwards the Blue Planet are labor a novel endeavour to gear upwardly that. And they convey a skillful argue to practice it, equally the lack of opened upwardly standards some wellness information is a huge barrier for them to travel inwards the $3 trillion wellness system.

On Monday, Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft too Salesforce spoke out at an lawsuit inwards Washington D.C. called the Blue Button 2.0 Developer conference. These companies are rivals inwards some of import ways, hence it's a strong dot that they came together on this issue.
Here's the articulation statement:

We are jointly committed to removing barriers for the adoption of technologies for healthcare interoperability, especially those that are enabled through the cloud too AI. We portion the mutual bespeak to unlock the potential inwards healthcare data, to deliver meliorate outcomes at lower costs.

To address the problem, these tech companies are proposing to construct tools for the wellness community some a laid of common standards for exchanging wellness information electronically, called "FHIR."

Resistant to alter
The regime too the soul sector convey tried to gear upwardly this work for decades, spending billions inwards the process. Unfortunately, the mass of that funding was spent on moving doctor's offices from paper-based systems to electronic ones, too non on information sharing....MUCH MORE

On the ane hand, if providers are going to convey to compete—and equally a pace inwards that administration Medicare inwards the the United States of America volition survive requiring hospitals to post prices online—records portability volition survive paramount.
On the other, centralizing records too handing them over to the tech giants volition convey ramifications nosotros can't fifty-fifty foresee at the moment.

Your call.