The White House and CMS’s recent announcements signal a major leap forward in U.S. healthcare: a shift from making health data merely flow across traditional care institutions, to making it actionable and patient-directed across the modern health ecosystem. A future of real-time, standards-based health data exchange is no longer aspirational—it’s happening, and with consumers in full control. We applaud CMS’ pledge to create a patient-centric healthcare ecosystem.

At HealthEx, we’ve been building toward this future from day one and are pledging to join the CMS effort as an early adopter.

We believe that real-time access and sharing of health records, secured by a strong trust architecture, will be foundational to the future of health and humanity and our own personal health journeys.

HealthEx: Built for the Patient-Directed Future

Today, HealthEx’s HealthWallet is live and supporting major payers, health systems, and consumer health platforms. It empowers any individual to access, manage, and share their health records—securely, efficiently, and with full transparency and consent. Like Apple Wallet does for your credit cards or drivers license, HealthEx makes health data portable, secure, and always at your fingertips. 

CMS’s 2026 goals focus on two priorities:

1. Promoting an interoperability framework: making it easier for patients and providers to access data

2. Increasing access to personalized tools: empowering patients with information to make better decisions

We see HealthEx as the bridge between these two goals—enabling patients not just to view their records, but to put them to work in digital health apps, AI agents, or any system they trust.

We’re ready to support the 30+ organizations who’ve pledged to promote health outcomes with their technology via our user-friendly, HIPAA-compliant real-time records platform. Ensuring the appropriate guardrails are in place, via consent, data segmentation for privacy, and transparency tools for patients, is the key to building trust and ensuring that all patient perspectives are respected.

At HeathEx, our mission is to turn policy into practice by putting secure, patient-controlled health data in every American’s hands.

How HealthEx Supports CMS’s Vision for a Patient-Centric Healthcare Ecosystem

CMS’s continued leadership in setting interoperability standards and investing in digital infrastructure lays a powerful foundation for a truly patient-directed health data ecosystem. HealthEx is proud to build on that momentum by contributing in three key areas where patient experience, trust, and operational readiness come into play:

1. Empowering End-User Consent and Control
The CMS framework provides the access rails—HealthEx focuses on individual agency, choice and control. Our HealthWallet gives individuals not just access to their records, but the ability to direct and share them with any trusted third party, including AI agents, apps, or caregivers. With our user-friendly consents that are enforceable at the point of data access, we enable organizations to meaningfully engage patients in decisions around their own data. 

2. Enabling secure and efficient access to health records, powered by scalable Individual Access Services (IAS)

HealthEx helps operationalize IAS by creating user-friendly, end-to-end flows for patients, and  taking on the technical and compliance heavy lifting that third parties would otherwise need to manage themselves. We make it easy for app developers, AI agents, payers, PBMs, and others to participate in the CMS-aligned ecosystem—without navigating the complexity of patient outreach, identity, consent, and network participation on their own.

3. Delivering Transparent and Trustworthy Audit Trails
Trust is built on transparency. Every data exchange facilitated by HealthEx includes a complete, standards-aligned audit trail—detailing who accessed what data, when, and for what purpose. These logs not only empower individuals but also help ensure participating platforms meet and exceed CMS expectations for accountability and data stewardship.

By contributing these essential layers—usability, scalability, and trust—HealthEx is proud to help accelerate CMS’s vision into day-to-day reality for millions of patients and the ecosystem that serves them.

What’s Next: From Interoperability to Impact & Delivering Value to all Americans

We believe CMS’s leadership is opening the door to a generational shift in digital health. But to realize the full potential, we must center patients as collaborators, not passive recipients of data, and translate interoperability into everyday consumer value

HealthEx is committed to realizing the CMS vision. Whether through the HealthWallet, our consent infrastructure, or our partnerships with national networks, payers, and consumer applications, we’re positioned to operationalize the promise of the CMS Framework - starting today. We believe this will enable other innovators to focus on further and faster value creation for patients.

Let’s build a system where data delivers value and transforms how we all manage our health.

We’re ready to partner with leaders in healthcare who believe in the vision put forth by CMS. Our leadership is ready to engage and would enjoy speaking with any team looking to deliver impact and value to patients. 

About HealthEx

Founded in 2022, HealthEx is building HealthWallet - a new way for individuals to be able to access and share their health records, for their own use, and with any trusted third party, and supports organizations in ensuring that individuals have agency, choice, and control over how their health records drive clinical value. Trust is built into the system, with consent, transparency, and revokability driving every data action. Its underlying infrastructure and AI-driven data policy engine ensures that all patient choices are respected and enforced at the point of data access.

The platform delivers full auditability, transparency, and control—empowering individuals to play an active role in their care, while helping healthcare organizations meet policy requirements and navigate complex data environments. HealthEx is committed to delivering a future where health data moves seamlessly and responsibly, always on the patient’s terms. 

Learn more at HealthEx.io.