AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room By Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld, and Darius Tahir Oct. 9, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/ai-tech-lobbying-medicare-medical-records-apps-trump-cms-slack-fda/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-81DPeGS7tUJzm0rOfIdGZoJa3IqSz_JiZTzv-LgtZ3L3BTK4MP-3VXnWsEk9e8YvTmiJILO8F25G5gxjKqUXNX0B0f1w&_hsmi=443416852&utm_content=443416852&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials In A 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 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 nudge the nation’s health department toward a loosely regulated future for AI health apps in which the government reimburses them for services as it does medical professionals. (Seitz, Rosenfeld, and Tahir, 10/9)