You're tired of reading takes about Doctronic's #Utah AI prescription pilot.
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You're tired of reading takes about Doctronic's #Utah AI prescription pilot. But did you know that the company hasn't spoken to the FDA about it?
Nine policy and legal experts STAT spoke to disputed Doctronic's reasoning.
This is the most important story you haven't read about the Utah AI program.
@STAT's Mario Aguilar has more about the law, the uncertainties, and the risks of the experiment:
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/utah-doctronic-ai-doctor-prescription-renewal-fda-regulation/
#health #healthcare #medicine #AI #artificialintelligence #healthtech
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You're tired of reading takes about Doctronic's #Utah AI prescription pilot. But did you know that the company hasn't spoken to the FDA about it?
Nine policy and legal experts STAT spoke to disputed Doctronic's reasoning.
This is the most important story you haven't read about the Utah AI program.
@STAT's Mario Aguilar has more about the law, the uncertainties, and the risks of the experiment:
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/utah-doctronic-ai-doctor-prescription-renewal-fda-regulation/
#health #healthcare #medicine #AI #artificialintelligence #healthtech
@STAT @brittanytrang this does not surprise me at all, given the set of things that I got their main product to "refill" for me
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@STAT @brittanytrang this does not surprise me at all, given the set of things that I got their main product to "refill" for me
@ricci Interesting -- what kind of medications were those? Feel free to email me (brittany.trang@statnews.com) if easier!
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@ricci Interesting -- what kind of medications were those? Feel free to email me (brittany.trang@statnews.com) if easier!
@brittanytrang Oops, looks like I failed to link the post I meant to

It was standard messing-around-with-an-LLM type stuff:
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115867057793995406
And do see this important context: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115867714944436598