I would have been po'ed if I had picked up the phone to a named virtual healthcare assistant. It is not a real person. They should stop impersonating one. Using human names, voices, and personalities for these AI automated systems should be illegal. It's fraud, imo.

Anyway AI... Read the drug script. This is a medication that is "PRN" which means as needed. I'm not filling medications that I don't need so your company can charge Medicare for medications. #AI #HealthCare #Medication #Prescription #Drugs

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/24/uk-vets-fees-pet-owners-bills-price-lists-prescription-fees. "The UK’s competition watchdog has ordered #vets to cap #prescription #fees at £21 & proposed a cost comparison website, after finding #consumers had faced huge #price rises & been 'left in the dark' over #bills."
UK vets face crackdown over fees as pet owners ‘left in the dark’ on bills

Practices must publish price lists, cap prescription fees and reveal if they are part of a large group, watchdog says

The Guardian
Shoppers president met health minister as Ontario expanded prescription powers
According to notes, Health Minister Sylvia Jones was advised to tell the head of Shoppers she would be 'open' to working out how 'to make the best use of pharmacy professionals.'
#Canada #Health #Politics #Fordgovernment
https://globalnews.ca/news/11736938/ontario-health-minister-met-shoppers-president/

@MikeFromLFE @brunogirin @RolloTreadway also, if your regular meds are now in 4-week packs instead of 30-day (because pharma companies are gougers who want to sell 13 month packs each year), you can get four 4-week repeat cycles on a three-month prepay if you are sharp on dates because the NHS still does the right thing even when pharma doesn't. I've never heard anyone official point that out.

#NHS #prepaid #prescription

Back to the fax? Doctors say Ottawa's plans to axe prescription software leaves them in limbo
A pair of Ontario family doctors say they may have to go back to sending patient prescriptions to pharmacies by fax because a federally funded agency is doing away with an electronic system, with no clear plans for its replacement.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/prescribe-it-9.7127925?cmp=rss
Back to the fax? Doctors say Ottawa's plans to axe prescription software leaves them in limbo
A pair of Ontario family doctors say they may have to go back to sending patient prescriptions to pharmacies by fax because a federally funded agency is doing away with an electronic system, with no clear plans for its replacement.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/prescribe-it-9.7127925?cmp=rss
Back to the fax? Doctors say Ottawa's plans to axe prescription software leaves them in limbo
A pair of Ontario family doctors say they may have to go back to sending patient prescriptions to pharmacies by fax because a federally funded agency is doing away with an electronic system, with no clear plans for its replacement.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/prescribe-it-9.7127925?cmp=rss

For some insane reason, #Utah decided to implement a “medical #AI” system.

Among other things, it can “diagnose” your illness, and send a report to a physician that includes recommended #prescription #medications. Slight hiccup, though; you can trick it to recommend whatever dose of whatever meds you want!

There are other glaring problems with Dr. Autocomplete, revealed in a detailed report here:

https://mindgard.ai/blog/doctronic-is-now-accepting-new-patients-and-unsafe-instructions

#health

Utah’s new medical chatbot can be easily hacked to give dangerous medical a - Mindgard

A medical chatbot can be hacked to give dangerous medical advice.

L’affaire Bonfanti sonne-t-elle le glas des Cold Cases ?

Le 16 janvier dernier, la Cour de cassation a confirmé la prescription du meurtre de Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti en 1986, alors que le coupable est passé aux

Actu-Juridique

@ai6yr
"Researchers were able to make the bot spread vaccine conspiracy theories,"

That just sounds like #utgop.
#Utah #AI #utpol #Rx #Prescription