{"id":175428,"date":"2026-01-07T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/utah-allows-nations-first-ai-drug-prescriptions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:15:11","slug":"utah-allows-nations-first-ai-drug-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/utah-allows-nations-first-ai-drug-prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah allows nation&#8217;s first AI drug prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2026\/01\/07\/utah-ai-drug-prescriptions-doctronic\">Utah allows nation&#8217;s first AI drug prescriptions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2026\/01\/07\/utah-ai-drug-prescriptions-doctronic\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2026\/01\/07\/utah-ai-drug-prescriptions-doctronic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-07 17:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.axios.com\">www.axios.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Pilot Program Launch<\/strong>: State officials launched a pilot program via New York-based tech startup Doctronic, utilizing AI to automatically refill prescriptions for patients with chronic conditions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Coverage and Exclusions<\/strong>: The service covers 190 commonly prescribed chronic medication refills but excludes medications like painkillers, injectables, and ADHD drugs. The initial prescription must be issued by a human doctor.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Human Oversight<\/strong>: Doctronic refers uncertain requests to human physicians for approval, especially if there&#8217;s doubt about whether a prescription should be refilled.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Criticism over Patient Safety<\/strong>: Critics, including the American Medical Association, express concerns that without physician involvement, the AI may miss clinical observations and warning signs, posing risks to patient safety, especially for those with a predisposition to addiction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Matching Accuracy<\/strong>: According to Doctronic&#8217;s data, the AI&#8217;s prescription recommendations match those of human doctors in over 99% of cases.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Operational Process<\/strong>: Patients confirm their eligibility, share selfies and photo IDs, and answer several questions from a chatbot regarding their medical history. Ineligible prescriptions lead to a consult with a doctor.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Regulatory Sandbox<\/strong>: Utah\u2019s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy supervises the program, allowing innovative AI solutions to be tested under a regulatory sandbox with potential waivers for certain rules.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Implications<\/strong>: The state aims to create a model for high-stakes AI regulation in healthcare, with findings intended to inform future state and federal AI policies across the country.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah allows nation&#8217;s first AI drug prescriptions https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2026\/01\/07\/utah-ai-drug-prescriptions-doctronic Publish Date: 2026-01-07 17:10:00 Source Domain: www.axios.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/BAdN3v3zTF5d3tfwLXfZMMk0g2Y=\/0x0:1920x1080\/1366x768\/2025\/10\/27\/1761580687820.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-175428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175430,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175428\/revisions\/175430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}