Daily Briefing for October 7, 2026
Physician in the Loop · Oct 7, 2026 · 6:01
Physician in the Loop · Oct 7, 2026 · 6:01
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Utah approves AI renewals of diabetes, heart drugs; Advocate patients link records to ChatGPT; lawmakers fight RPM limit; Novant shifts to virtual care
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Utah approved a pilot on Oct. 5 that lets August AI's software review renewals of routine diabetes and cardiovascular prescriptions for $4 each, with a Utah-licensed physician authorizing every renewal, MobiHealthNews reported.
The pilot is the second in the state's AI sandbox to handle chronic-disease renewals, after Doctronic's, and follows Nolla Health's acne pilot, approved the same day, the first to let AI issue initial prescriptions. Elsewhere, Advocate Health said the number of its patients who linked their MyChart records to ChatGPT rose more than 7,000% from July to August, and 32 House members asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to drop a proposed limit on paying for remote patient monitoring by contracted staff.
Novant Health is selling 36 South Carolina urgent care centers as it moves patients to around-the-clock virtual care built with K Health's AI. The day's other items cover an FDA clearance for MRI body-composition software, federal money for patient-controlled AI agents and pediatric AI, a Parkinson's telerehabilitation trial and a staffing-software funding round.
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