AI leaders lobby Trump health officials in government-run chat room
Summary
Top tech companies and Trump administration health officials have spent a year working quietly to encourage Americans to use AI apps for managing healthcare and medical records. They held private discussions on Slack to shape government policy for AI health tools, aiming to integrate these apps into Medicare billing without full public disclosure.Key Facts
- Tech giants like Microsoft, Apple, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic joined a private FDA meeting on AI health apps.
- The meeting was not publicly announced and took place in a private Slack chat room, not open to the public.
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates health apps as medical devices.
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an initiative allowing health apps to bill Medicare for AI services.
- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed AI in healthcare, calling it highly knowledgeable.
- A Medicare App Library was created to promote commercial health apps to seniors and people with disabilities.
- Some doctors have concerns about AI health tools’ accuracy, data use, and lack of liability for mistakes.
- Legal experts say the private Slack group resembles a federal advisory panel that should operate publicly.
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