Key Takeaways

• The Healthy Technology Act of 2025 aims to classify AI and ML models as health practitioners, allowing them to prescribe FDA-approved drugs.

Proposed bill would allow AI to prescribe FDA-approved drugs

Rep. David Schweikert (R-Arizona) has introduced the Healthy Technology Act of 2025 (H.R.238), which would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models to be classified as health practitioners, capable of prescribing drugs authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The text of the bill is short, and lacks details on which drugs could be prescribed, and which clinical settings could be involved. PharmaPhorum has more.

Author(s): Austin Littrell

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