Despite the digitization of health care records in recent years, hospitals, clinics and pharmacies still struggle to get access to relevant patient records. (Image: Shutterstock)

Big Tech wants to do its part to make health care more transparent and, hopefully, more affordable.

An assortment of major tech companies signed a pledge Monday to help ease the flow of critical health care data between patients and providers.

“We are jointly committed to removing barriers for the adoption of technologies for health care interoperability, particularly those that are enabled through the cloud and AI,” said the joint statement. “We share the common quest to unlock the potential in health care data, to deliver better outcomes at lower costs.”

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