{"id":205828,"date":"2026-04-24T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/utah-medical-board-calls-for-suspension-of-ai-doctor-experiment\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:45:27","slug":"utah-medical-board-calls-for-suspension-of-ai-doctor-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/utah-medical-board-calls-for-suspension-of-ai-doctor-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah medical board calls for &#8216;suspension&#8217; of AI doctor experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/04\/24\/doctronic-ai-doctor-pilot-utah-face-backlash-medical-board\/\">Utah medical board calls for &#8216;suspension&#8217; of AI doctor experiment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/04\/24\/doctronic-ai-doctor-pilot-utah-face-backlash-medical-board\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/04\/24\/doctronic-ai-doctor-pilot-utah-face-backlash-medical-board\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-24 17:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.statnews.com\">www.statnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mario Aguilar writes about technology in healthcare, focusing on AI, VR, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics, exploring both advantages and challenges in integrating these technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Utah\u2019s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy partnered with AI doctor startup Doctronic to implement a chatbot that autonomously evaluates patients and renews prescriptions for nearly 200 drugs without physician input.<\/li>\n<li>Initially launched in January, this program has faced backlash from doctors, who argue that it was implemented without sufficient consultation.<\/li>\n<li>The Utah Medical Licensing Board discovered the program post-launch and issued a request for its suspension, citing potential risks to patient safety and emphasizing the need for further discussions.<\/li>\n<li>The article reveals ongoing debates about the ethical and safety considerations of healthcare AI technology and the necessary regulatory and stakeholder involvement to ensure its effective and safe use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah medical board calls for &#8216;suspension&#8217; of AI doctor experiment https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/04\/24\/doctronic-ai-doctor-pilot-utah-face-backlash-medical-board\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-24 17:28:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2214163274-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-205828","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\/205828"}],"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=205828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205830,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205828\/revisions\/205830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}