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For more than a year, about 1,700 mostly tech industry members helped shape Medicare policy on AI health apps and your medical records inside a government Slack, with only a handful of patients and doctors present.
Seventeen Hundred Members and Almost No Patients: Inside the Medicare Slack Where Tech Firms Shaped Health AI Policy, October 12, 2026
A Slack workspace run by Medicare agency CMS grew to about 1,700 members, mostly tech companies, AI startups and investors including Microsoft, OpenAI and Palantir, with only a handful of patients and doctors. Brian and Jessica unpack how it led to a closed door FDA session on health chatbots, a Medicare App Library meant to be a sales engine for AI apps, and a push for frictionless app access to patient medical records, plus what it means for advisory committee law, liability and your own health data.
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