AI leaders lobby Trump health officials in 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.
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