1,700 Members, Few Patients: The Medicare Slack Big Tech Shaped

Podcast: DX Today | No-Hype Podcast & News About AI & DX · Rick Spair

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

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...