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- CMS operates a 1,700-member Slack where outside companies and officials help shape policy on AI applications and medical records access, with the group having spent roughly a year quietly working on the effort
- Microsoft and OpenAI are among the participating companies, alongside techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials who use the channel to chart an extra-governmental policy process
Why it matters: Roughly 1,700 participants including the regulated companies themselves — Microsoft and OpenAI — are writing the AI and medical-records rules for Medicare in a private Slack rather than through the public-comment channels that typically govern federal rulemaking, giving those firms direct influence over standards that will apply to competitors and patients alike.
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