We signed the CMS-aligned network pledge to "Kill the Clipboard". Here is what it means.

On July 27, 2026, Eric Stephens, Founder and CTO of zPaper and HealthScores.ai and Judson Bruno, Product Manager traveled to Washington, D.C. to attended an event held by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to formally sign their pledge on behalf of zPaper, the company behind HealthScores.ai. documented pledge that validates the alignment of zPaper with CMS's "Kill the Clipboard" initiative. They were joined by many other healthcare companies who are collectively helping to support this important initiative. 

While they were there, they signed a pledge on behalf of zPaper, the company behind HealthScores.ai.

We want to be clear about what that is and what it is not. The pledge is voluntary and open to any company that wants to sign it. Signing it does not make us part of CMS or any government program. It does not mean CMS approves or endorses HealthScores.ai. It is a promise we made about how we build.

Here is the promise, to which we signed:

HealthScores.ai publicly commits to giving members clear control over their health information, obtaining informed consent, limiting data use and disclosure, protecting information with appropriate security safeguards, preserving the source of medical information, and providing transparent options to access, share, disconnect, or delete information.

That is written for the industry. Here is the plain version.

Your health history is probably spread across several places. A hospital has part of it. Your primary care office has another part. A specialist you saw two years ago has a third. Each one gives you a portal with its own login, and each portal shows you only its own piece. Nobody holds the whole thing. That includes you.

So every time you sit down at a new front desk, you write the same list out again from memory. Your medications. Your allergies. The surgery you had. The name of the doctor who ordered the test.

Through its "Kill the Clipboard" initiative, CMS wants to make starting a doctor’s visit as easy as scanning a code on your phone. Instead of sitting in the waiting room filling out paper forms by hand, patients can share their info in seconds. At the event, several companies showed off the tech that makes this hassle-free check-in possible.



“HealthScores.ai helps Medicare beneficiaries bring together, manage, and access their health information on their mobile phones. HealthScores.ai provides a SMART Health Link for check-in, allowing a practitioner's office to scan a code and receive the information a beneficiary chooses to share in a usable format. This reduces repetitive paperwork and the need for patients to recall their medical history, improving both the patient experience and office workflow.” - Judson Bruno

This is the work HealthScores.ai was built for. We bring your records, your portal information, and readings from devices like a watch or a blood pressure cuff into one place. We turn that history into a Health Score on a scale of 0 to 1000, so your family can look at it and understand where you stand.

Your health profile lives in a file on your own phone or computer. Nothing leaves it until you decide who gets it.

When you want to share, you build a SMART Health Link. You choose exactly what goes in it and exactly who receives it. That might be your spouse, your daughter, or the front desk at a new specialist's office. There is a second code you can use as well. It carries the same record in a format your care team's system is built to accept, so their staff can bring it into their system instead of typing it in from a form.

Signing a pledge is the easy part. The work is what comes next, and CMS will set more milestones for companies that signed. We will keep you posted on ours.

You have spent a lifetime building your health history. Our commitment is that you should be the one holding it.

Read the full announcement from zPaper here.