Visiting a doctor still means filling out the same paperwork over and over again. You repeat your medications from memory. You log into multiple portals that don’t talk to each other. For millions of Americans, this is healthcare in 2026.
Samsung and b.well Connected Health want to change that. Their new partnership brings the federal “Kill the Clipboard” initiative to Samsung Galaxy smartphones. The idea is simple: your complete health history lives on your phone, and you can share it with any doctor instantly.
“This is the moment interoperability becomes real for people,” said Kristen Valdes, CEO and Founder 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.”
How will it work?
The service works through the Health Records feature in Samsung Health. Patients can access their complete medical history, understand it in plain language, and share it with participating providers instantly. The system connects to a nationwide network of health systems and data sources.
Here’s what the experience looks like:
- Your verified medical data is stored securely on your phone
- Conversational AI translates complex medical language into everyday explanations
- You choose when and what to share with healthcare providers
- Health data moves directly into electronic medical records without manual entry
CLEAR’s secure identity platform verifies users and creates a reusable digital credential. This lets health data move safely into consumers’ hands while addressing identity security concerns.
Why does it matter?
The federal “Kill the Clipboard” initiative aims to give patients direct control of their medical data. Instead of health records being locked inside individual hospitals, patients can carry their complete medical history wherever they go.
The Samsung-b.well partnership shows what this future looks like in practice. Patients simply choose to share their verified data when they need care. No more filling out the same forms at every appointment.
“This is about making healthcare simple by reducing friction for consumers to easily access, manage, and share their medical records,” said Dr. Hon Pak, Senior Vice President at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung will combine lifelog data, including health metrics like sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness with medical records, and then make it easily sharable to their doctors.”
The context
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services leads the “Kill the Clipboard” initiative as part of a nationwide effort to modernize healthcare. The goal is to eliminate repetitive forms and give patients direct control of their medical data.
This partnership represents a different approach to digital health. Instead of requiring hospital-by-hospital integrations, Samsung’s open ecosystem connects consumer devices directly into clinical workflows using national standards.
The collaboration brings together several key players:
- Samsung provides the Galaxy smartphone platform and Health app
- b.well supplies the health data platform that connects to nationwide health systems
- CLEAR offers secure identity verification to protect patient data
Samsung and b.well will demonstrate the experience at HIMSS, showing how consumer-controlled data, identity verification, and conversational AI are coming together to reshape healthcare access.