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This bill, known as the "Healthy Technology Act of 2025", aims to modify the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to expand the definition of a "practitioner" who can legally prescribe drugs to include artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. Specifically, the bill would allow AI systems to prescribe medications if two key conditions are met: first, the AI must be authorized to prescribe drugs by a specific state's statute, and second, the AI technology must be approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under existing medical device and emergency use authorization pathways. This proposed change would represent a significant legal update recognizing AI's potential role in healthcare prescription practices, effectively treating certain advanced AI systems as equivalent to human medical practitioners for the purpose of drug prescription. The bill seeks to provide a clear legal framework for AI technologies to potentially play a more direct role in medical treatment and prescription decisions, subject to state-level regulation and FDA oversight.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/238/all-info