AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room
Industry leaders pressed for looser rules and Medicare reimbursement as 35 organizations joined a closed FDA session on conversational AI products, officials said.
- Granting tech companies a direct line to policy, the Trump administration used a private Slack channel to shape AI healthcare rules without formal regulatory oversight or public input.
- The Slack workspace membership has ballooned to 1,700 over the past year, allowing executives to help shape federal guidance while bypassing standard advisory committee protocols and public regulatory notices.
- During a May meeting, executives argued health apps should stand "in the shoes" of patients, while CMS Innovation Center official Jacob Shiff called the work a "sales engine" for the industry.
- The Medicare App Library recently launched, promoting two dozen commercial apps to millions of seniors, while Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed AI as "much better informed than any doctor."
- American Medical Association CEO John Whyte warned that tools lack sufficient data and liability protections, stating "there's no liability if these tools get things wrong" as the industry rapidly integrates into federal health policy.
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AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room
A Slack workspace has served as a war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign aimed at persuading Americans to manage their healthcare and medical records on apps.
AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - Health Care Today
A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records. As that campaign has unfolded, administration officials have granted tech companies an unusual opportunity to [...]
AI Giants Lobby Trump Health Officials Through a Private CMS Slack Channel
CMS's Innovation Center official Jacob Shiff told industry reps in February he hoped the agency's work would act as a "sales engine," and CMS later launched a Medicare App Library with pledges from more than 700 organizations and roughly two dozen actual apps.
AI leaders lobby Trump health officials in government-run chat room
A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use to manage their healthcare and medical records. As that campaign has unfolded, administration officials have…
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