Samsung is working with Baltimore-based B.Well Connected Health to turn smartphones into the front door of healthcare.

The aim is to help Americans skip paperwork, understand their medical records and share data instantly with doctors.

The move is aligned with the federal Kill the Clipboard initiative, a nationwide effort led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modernise healthcare by eliminating repetitive forms and giving patients direct control of their medical data.

For millions of Americans, visiting a doctor still means filling out the same paperwork again and again, repeating medications from memory, and logging into multiple portals that rarely connect. This collaboration helps move healthcare interoperability from policy to practice. Samsung Galaxy smartphone users can securely access their complete health history, understand it in plain language, and share it with participating providers instantly from the Health Records feature via the Samsung Health app.

“This is the moment interoperability becomes real for people,” said Kristen Valdes, CEO of B.Well. “For years, patients were promised access to their health data but still faced friction at every appointment. Now the experience matches the policy; your health information moves with you.”

The federal initiative aims to ensure medical information follows the patient, not the provider. Instead of health records being locked inside hospitals, patients will be able to carry their EHR data through B.Well wherever they go.

The partnership goes beyond access. Consumers can also understand their records through conversational AI grounded in their verified clinical history, translating complex medical language into everyday explanations.

Patients can ask questions about diagnoses or medications, receive plain-language explanations, share accurate information with clinicians instantly, receive visit summaries after appointments, prepare for doctor visits with comprehensive summaries of what’s changed since their last appointment including suggested topics and questions to discuss, and receive ongoing nudges aligned to their physician’s care plan, helping them stay on track between visits.

Unlike device-centric health platforms that require hospital-by-hospital integrations, Samsung’s open ecosystem connects consumer devices directly into clinical workflows using national standards. Health data can move securely into electronic medical records without manual entry, reducing administrative burden for providers and patients alike.

“This is about making healthcare simple by reducing friction for consumers to easily access, manage and share their medical records,” said Hon Pak, senior vice president at Samsung Electronics (www.samsung.com). “Samsung will combine lifelong data, including health metrics (sleep, exercise, nutrition and mindfulness) with medical records, and then make them easily sharable to their doctors. Our partnership with B.Well shows how mobile technology can connect people, providers and health records at a national scale.”

Behind the experience, B.Well (www.bwell.com) securely connects consumers to their health data across a nationwide network of health systems and data sources.

The collaboration demonstrates how federal healthcare modernisation efforts can translate into tangible consumer benefits with less paperwork and more informed patients. By combining Samsung devices with B.Well’s health data platform, the experience works across providers rather than inside a single hospital network, bringing the US healthcare system closer to a portable, patient-controlled record.