Could artificial intelligence qualify as a health practitioner authorized to prescribe medications? That’s exactly what’s been proposed in the “Healthy Technology Act of 2025,” legislation that would add AI and machine learning to the term “practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug.”
While Ben Michaels, PharmD, MIDS, a data science pharmacist at UCSF Medical Center, in San Francisco, sees the value of AI in prescribing, he called the