AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room - Fierce Healthcare

Fierce Healthcare reports that a "cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials" has spent a year quietly charting what the article calls an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records. The article is published at fiercehealthcare.com under the headline "AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room." It describes the effort as taking place inside a government-run chat room.

Fierce Healthcare reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not formally announced the chat room through federal regulatory channels. CMS officials have, however, talked about it at industry conferences, according to the article. The headline identifies the officials being lobbied as Trump health officials, and the article describes the participants as including high-level Trump administration officials alongside technology and finance figures.

It does not state which specific technology companies or individuals are involved in the chat room, what access the apps would have to patient data, or when the tools might be made available to the public. It also does not indicate whether the chat room has a formal name, how long it has existed, or whether any regulatory review of the effort has taken place. The article describes the campaign as having been charted quietly over the past year.