{"id":1019270,"date":"2026-07-07T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019270"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:16:25","slug":"is-ai-ready-to-take-over-your-prescriptions-doctors-are-wary-of-utahs-automated-refill-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/is-ai-ready-to-take-over-your-prescriptions-doctors-are-wary-of-utahs-automated-refill-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI ready to take over your prescriptions? Doctors are wary of Utah&#8217;s automated refill program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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? <\/p>\n<p>The program allows Utah residents to skip the doctor&#8217;s office and get their prescriptions refilled online by an AI chatbot called Doctronic. It&#8217;s a seemingly simple step toward making healthcare more convenient for patients and prescribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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? The program allows Utah residents to skip the doctor&#8217;s office and get their prescriptions refilled online by an AI chatbot called Doctronic. It&#8217;s a seemingly simple step toward making healthcare more convenient for patients and prescribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019299,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019270\/revisions\/1019299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}