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July 13, 2026

Is AI ready to take over your prescriptions?

  • Doctors are wary of new automated refill program.
    • By MATTHEW PERRONE
    AP Health Writer

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    Utah is the first state in the nation to allow AI to renew prescriptions for patients.

    A prescription refill program that quietly launched in Utah earlier this year has kicked off a big medical debate: Is artificial intelligence ready to take over tasks that, until now, could only be performed by doctors?


     
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