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Trump’s health tech gamble: Faster AI, fewer guardrails

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Trump’s health tech gamble: Faster AI, fewer guardrails
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Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy.

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can reach Katie on Signal at palmer.01.

In the technology industry, there is a proud tradition of unleashing innovations before regulators put the brakes on progress to consider concerns about safety and fairness.

But in digital health under President Trump, it’s the regulators who are endorsing — even accelerating — the pace of change.

During the past year, Trump’s health agencies swiftly adopted artificial intelligence and other technology products and dismantled guardrails designed to protect patients. Policy experts said the combination of rapid uptake and reduced regulation requires Americans to accept the dangers of unchecked experimentation to confront global threats to the nation’s leadership in AI. 

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  1. Chief Investigative Reporter, Data & Technology

    Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy.

  2. Health Tech Correspondent

    Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.

  3. Health Tech Correspondent

    Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can reach Katie on Signal at palmer.01.

  4. Brittany Trang, Ph.D., is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can reach Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.

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