President Trump's bet on medical technology: Faster AI, fewer guardrails

Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare and the underlying safety, equity, and privacy issues.

Mario Aguilar covers technologies in the medical field, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telemedicine, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how technology is changing the practice of medicine and the business and policy challenges to realizing technology's potential. He is also co-author of the free twice-weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can access Mario with the mariojoze.13 signal.

Katie Palmer focuses on the impact of digital healthcare on patients, healthcare providers, and businesses, covering telemedicine, clinical artificial intelligence, and the healthcare data economy. You can reach Katie on Signal at Palmer.01.

The technology industry has a proud tradition of unleashing innovation before regulators put the brakes on progress due to safety and equity concerns.

But in digital health under President Trump, regulators are championing and even accelerating the pace of change.

Over the past year, President Trump's health officials have rapidly deployed artificial intelligence and other technology products to dismantle guardrails designed to protect patients. Policy experts said the combination of rapid adoption of AI and loosening regulations means Americans will need to embrace the risks of unchecked experimentation to confront global threats to the nation's leadership in the field.

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Chief Research Reporter, Data & Technology
Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare and the underlying safety, equity, and privacy issues.
Health tech correspondent
Mario Aguilar covers technologies in the medical field, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telemedicine, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how technology is changing the practice of medicine and the business and policy challenges to realizing technology's potential. He is also co-author of the free twice-weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can access Mario with the mariojoze.13 signal.
Health tech correspondent
Katie Palmer focuses on the impact of digital healthcare on patients, healthcare providers, and businesses, covering telemedicine, clinical artificial intelligence, and the healthcare data economy. You can reach Katie on Signal at Palmer.01.
Dr. Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can access Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.