Inside the First Autonomous AI Prescription Program in America w/ Doctronic CMO Dr. Byron Crowe

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Dr. Byron Crowe discusses the implications of the first autonomous AI prescription program in America.

Most physicians see AI as something happening to medicine. Dr. Byron Crowe is one of the few who decided to make it happen himself. In this episode of How I Doctor, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Byron Crowe — internal medicine physician, former Harvard Medical School faculty, and Chief Medical Officer of Doctronic — to discuss the most provocative development in healthcare AI yet: the nation's first state-approved program allowing AI to autonomously renew prescriptions, currently live in Utah. This episode doesn't traffic in hypotheticals. The program is running right now. And the questions it raises are ones every physician is going to have to answer eventually — whether they're ready or not. Who's responsible when AI gets a prescription wrong? Is the current system it's replacing actually any better? And if AI can handle the routine work, what does that mean for the physicians who've been doing it? Byron has thought harder about these questions than almost anyone in medicine. He's the first author on the Society for General Internal Medicine's position statement on generative AI. He's published peer-reviewed research in JAMA on AI's diagnostic…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Graham Walker

Guest: Dr. Byron Crowe

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• autonomous prescriptions
• medical ethics
• healthcare technology
• internal medicine

Keywords

• AI prescriptions
• healthcare AI
• Doctronic
• prescription renewal
• medical ethics
• internal medicine
• Utah

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Doctronic, Harvard Medical School, Society for General Internal Medicine, JAMA

Places: Utah

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