President Trump announced a national digital health records system, together with Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Google, and OpenAI. He says that the goal is to “kill the clipboard.” They present this to you as a way to keep your records easier. Scan yourself in, any provider can access your records. Many countries in Europe already have this. But… convenience comes at a cost. What they’re not saying is that putting all your sensitive health information into a centralized, digitized system—especially one linked with AI firms and tech giants—creates a goldmine of data vulnerable to hacking, misuse, and surveillance. Who controls it? Who gets to see it? What happens when your health profile determines your insurance, your job, or even your freedom of movement? How do we know this data won’t be used to restrict access to the world? Want to board a plane? Sorry—you’re missing your second chickenpox vaccine. Need to renew your driver’s license? Looks like you skipped your annual wellness check. Patients at private insurance may be allowed to opt out of this but Medicare and Medicaid patients surely won’t given that the initiative is being spearheaded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. The pharmacratic state will have its pound of flesh. The post Digital Health Records appeared first on Redacted.