Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight
Utah will let Nolla Health's AI examine acne and prescribe topical medication with limited physician oversight.
Utah is launching a one-year program that lets Nolla Health's AI examine mild-to-moderate acne and prescribe medication with progressively less physician oversight. Patients pay $4.99 per month, scan their face, submit a medical history, and receive a severity score used to select one of eight approved topical treatments. The first 100 prescriptions require prior doctor review, the next 400 are reviewed weekly after submission, and later at least 10% are reviewed monthly. The company says expected side effects are limited to localized skin irritation or dryness.
- Utah's one-year pilot is limited to mild-to-moderate acne.
- Nolla Health's $4.99 monthly app scores acne from a face scan.
- Only eight approved topical medications can be recommended.
- Doctor review covers the first 100 prescriptions, then becomes mostly retrospective.
- Expected adverse effects are described as localized irritation or dryness.
- Products
- Nolla Health
- Organizations
- Nolla HealthState of Utah
- Countries
- United States
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A hot potato: Being a doctor is one of the jobs expected to be least at risk from AI replacement. But a new program launched in Utah is raising questions over that assumption. A healthcare startup will begin offering AI examinations and prescriptions to patients without direct human oversight, making Utah the first state to replace a doctor with an AI.
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