Healthy Technology Act of 2021
This bill establishes that artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning technology may be eligible to prescribe drugs.
Currently, certain drugs may be dispensed only upon a prescription provided by a practitioner licensed by law to administer the drug. Under this bill, an AI or machine learning technology may qualify as such a prescribing practitioner if the technology is (1) authorized by state law to prescribe the drug involved; and (2) approved, cleared, or authorized under certain federal provisions pertaining to medical devices and products.
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that 
 artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify 
  as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs if authorized by the 
  State involved and approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and 
              Drug Administration, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Healthy Technology Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. PRESCRIPTION OF DRUGS BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MACHINE 
              LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES.

    Section 503(b) of Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
353(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(6) In this subsection, the term `practitioner licensed by law to 
administer such drug' includes artificial intelligence and machine 
learning technology that are--
            ``(A) authorized pursuant to a statute of the State 
        involved to prescribe the drug involved; and
            ``(B) approved, cleared, or authorized under section 
        510(k), 513, 515, or 564.''.
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Healthy Technology Act of 2021
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs if authorized by the State involved and approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, and for other purposes.
Healthy Technology Act of 2021
Rep. Schweikert, David