[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-utah-pilot-will-test-ai-prescribing-for-acne-meds":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},10528,"utah-pilot-will-test-ai-prescribing-for-acne-meds","Utah Pilot Will Test AI Prescribing for Acne Meds","A 100-patient Utah pilot with Nolla Health reviews every AI acne prescription today, but plans to shrink that check to one in ten cases later.","Utah will let software write acne prescriptions, with a doctor checking its work for now.\n\nThe pilot, run with digital health startup Nolla Health, starts with 100 patients. A physician reviews every prescription the AI generates at the outset, according to a single report on the program. The plan calls for that oversight to shrink over time, eventually dropping to a 10 percent monthly sample of prescriptions rather than a full review. No launch date or further regulatory details beyond the pilot itself have been disclosed.\n\nAcne is about as low-stakes as prescribing gets, which makes it a convenient place to test how much human oversight AI prescribing really needs before anyone tries this with something riskier. It also previews a familiar pattern in health tech: start with full review to build trust, then dial back the humans once the system looks like it works. That tension between speed and safety is the same one regulators have clashed with telehealth prescribers over before.\n\nSo far, the 10 percent figure is a stated goal, not a track record. The only detail available comes from one account of the pilot, and nothing has been independently verified about patient outcomes or what happens when the AI gets something wrong.","[\"ai-prescribing\",\"telehealth\",\"utah\",\"acne-treatment\"]","2026-10-07T16:11:14.000Z","2026-10-08T14:12:14.668Z","2026-10-08T14:12:20.641Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Add corroboration beyond the single PCMag writeup — name the physicians, Utah health regulators, or Nolla Health officials involved (or clearly attribute it as a single-source report) since core facts currently rest on one uncorroborated source, and fix the headline's past-tense framing ('Cuts Human Review to 10%') since the body makes clear that reduction is a planned future step, not something that has happened yet.","resolved","ai",[32,33,34,35],"ai-prescribing","telehealth","utah","acne-treatment",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"PCMag","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pcmag.com\u002Fnews\u002Futah-experiments-with-having-ai-prescribe-meds-for-acne",0,{"sections":42},[43,47,52,57,62,67,72,77,82,86,91,96,101,106],{"name":44,"slug":30,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"AI",6374,"2026-10-07T18:30:57.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Security","security",902,"2026-10-07T19:53:42.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy","policy",472,"2026-10-07T17:29:54.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Deals","deals",453,"2026-10-07T23:58:31.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Hardware","hardware",220,"2026-10-07T19:59:32.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Science","science",186,"2026-10-06T21:20:39.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",173,"2026-10-07T17:41:41.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Software","software",112,"2026-10-07T18:10:00.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":80,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups","2026-10-07T23:36:57.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",105,"2026-10-07T16:59:11.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"General","general",59,"2026-10-07T21:16:18.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Gaming","gaming",56,"2026-10-07T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Reviews","reviews",33,"2026-10-05T11:57:17.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]