Utah’s AI-prescription experiment sparks regulatory questions

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Utah's collaboration with Doctronic to empower an AI to refill prescriptions substitutes machine decision-making for clinicians, raising urgent regulatory and safety questions about accountability, patient protection, and how quickly policymakers should adapt as AI enters medical practice.
Topics:health#access-to-health-care#artificial-intelligence#healthcare-regulation#medical-technology#medication#opinion
- Opinion | An ‘AI doctor’? An experiment in Utah raises urgent questions. The Washington Post
- A $15 AI test, Project Glasswing, and how Doctronic pilot blindsided Utah medical board statnews.com
- AI Prescribing Medications In Utah: A Flawed Regulatory Playbook Health Affairs
- Paging Dr. Algorithm: AI steps into medicine, but not without concerns Straight Arrow News - SAN
- AI chatbot used to renew psychiatric prescriptions raises safety concerns سانا
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