The state is the first to launch a pilot that enables patients living with chronic health concerns to refill their prescriptions on an AI platform. Attendees of the HealthLeaders Chief Digital Executive Exchange (CDEX) last month said it wouldn’t be long before AI would be prescribing medications for patients. That time, apparently, is now. Utah officials announced on Tuesday a partnership with AI health platform Doctronic to enable patients living with chronic conditions to use the platform to refill prescriptions. Utah becomes the first state to test the technology for prescribing and the latest example of a state talking the lead in forging AI policy. “Healthcare has become too complex and expensive for Utah families,” State Senator Kirk Cullimore, who sponsored legislation the created the pilot program, said in a press release. “Utah is leading efforts to simplify costs and lower prescription drug prices through our ‘regulatory sandbox,’ which fosters innovation and helps patients get the medications they need while reducing costs and building trust in the process. This partnership with Doctronic reinforces the principle of ‘doctor, not device,’ ensuring automation supports, rather than replaces, human judgment as we lead the nation in responsible healthcare policy.” The announcement, through the Utah Department of Commerce’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, enables patients to renew their prescriptions on the Doctronic platform, which uses AI to prescribe routine refills. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(“dfp-ad-hl_native1”); }); The platform lies within Utah’s newly created ‘regulatory sandbox.’ The state will be monitoring the pilot program’s clinical safety protocols…
