Trump administration health officials invited AI and tech leaders into a government Slack workspace to shape health policy
CBS News MoneyWatch reports federal health officials created a Slack workspace beginning in August 2025 and invited technology and AI-company representatives to discuss federal policy for AI in health care. CMS officials discussed promoting participating apps in the Medicare App Library and held nonpublic FDA meetings with industry participants.
CBS News MoneyWatch reported that federal health officials set up a Slack workspace in mid‑2025 and invited a select group of tech and AI industry representatives to help shape federal policy on AI in health care. The workspace grew to about 1,700 participants and included CMS staff and other HHS officials, the article says.
The reporting documents CMS messages encouraging companies to share expertise to help the FDA shape future guidance and shows agency officials — including CMS staffers — discussed promoting participating health apps through Medicare channels. The article also says an FDA meeting attended by industry representatives did not appear on the FDA’s public calendar and that a publicly accessible recording linked in a Google Drive was made private after media inquiries.
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