{"id":10236,"date":"2026-02-04T23:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/utah-doctronic-prescription-fda-problems-ai-prognosis-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:02:33","slug":"utah-doctronic-prescription-fda-problems-ai-prognosis-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/utah-doctronic-prescription-fda-problems-ai-prognosis-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: The FDA questions underlying Utah\u2019s AI prescription pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: The FDA questions underlying Utah\u2019s AI prescription pilot<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of my favorite science communicators, Alex Dainis, is in the middle of a short-form video series where she\u2019s tasting every amino acid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each video is great, but her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/xxBpXxzTJZU\">reaction to tasting cysteine<\/a> is memorable. I am obsessed; you should give a couple of the videos a watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Y<em>ou\u2019re reading the web edition of STAT\u2019s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/ai-prognosis\/\">Sign up to get it<\/a>\u00a0delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ask-for-forgiveness-not-permission\">Ask for forgiveness, not permission<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re tuned into the health AI discussion online, you\u2019re probably sick of hearing takes on Utah\u2019s artificial intelligence pilot program, where Doctronic will\u00a0authorize prescription renewals with AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It sounds great \u2014 a step toward letting AI do more things\u00a0in a \u201csandbox\u201d environment sanctioned by the state government. But what, exactly, is the legality of this program?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/04\/utah-doctronic-prescription-fda-problems-ai-prognosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Brittany Trang<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/04\/utah-doctronic-prescription-fda-problems-ai-prognosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: The FDA questions underlying Utah\u2019s AI prescription pilot One of my favorite science communicators, Alex Dainis, is in the middle of a short-form video series where she\u2019s tasting every amino acid.\u00a0 Each video is great, but her reaction to tasting cysteine is memorable. I am obsessed; you should give a couple of the videos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,69,2217],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-prognosis","category-artificial-intelligence","category-health-tech","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}