Tech Giants Pledge to Ease Patient, Provider Access to Health Data

Promise seen as opportunity to bring on data-driven revolution in health care

WASHINGTON—Major tech companies committed Monday to removing technological barriers that have hindered patient and provider access to health-care data online.

At a Trump administration event focused on developing more health-care apps, companies including Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc. unit Google and Microsoft Corp. said they would “share the common quest to unlock the potential in health care data, to deliver better outcomes at lower costs.”

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