https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2026/01/07/utah-ai-drug-prescriptions-doctronic
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/doctronic-partners-utah-ai-sandbox
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Maybe medical professionals will also see an AI career bubble….
Scary because there’s no room for error with medicine but at least what news articles show, there’s always a lot of error.
Yikes!
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I can see this as being valuable for some maintenance medications. I have one, and schedule an appointment with the doc annually so I can get it renewed. Visits were allowed to be virtually but I think that has ended. So…I drive 45 minutes, wait in the waiting room about 20 minutes, see the doc or PA for all of 5 minutes (while they just look at my recent blood work), and then drive home another 45 minutes (also paying for the parking garage).
same thing every single year.
The article said the AI error level is less than 1%, and it didn’t say if the pharmacist might catch those, and it doesn’t say what the error rate is for prescriptions written by professionals (doc, nurse, dentist, eye doctor). Or by over the phone docs who never see the patient (I see those ads for viagra over the phone).
I see the biggest risk being someone who gets a renewal when the meds really aren’t helping and the patient should be changed to another medication or someone like me who is always trying to talk the doc/NP into a lower dose of the meds I’m on, so might be temped to cut pills in half or who might need a stronger dose and just gets a renewal for the same dose.
But again, how often does the human ordering the renewal change the prescription from the year before?
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