Re: Pain and Human Development/ question of ethics 4 Hawki
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- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:51:55 GMT
you may be right...but I am not aware that this state...or many others for
that matter...have the computer capability at this time...such that EVERY
scheduled script is entered into a state database,,and that a health care
provider could...with a simple phone call...obtain info on a person gathered
from EVERY pharmacy in that state...
yes..there are rules and laws..and some states still use triplicate blanks
for Sched II...one copy stays in the pharmacy..one copy stays in the
patient's chart..and third copy goes to some far away place in the state
capital...
as a provider I have never been able to access such info...yes..am sure it
is there..probably accessable thru "legal" avenues,,,but not with a simple
phone call...
in the HMO I worked in..yes..our computer systems were all linked..and
pharmacy records for all patients could be accessed instantly..but ONLY if
the patient had the script filled at an "inhouse" pharmacy (not a retail
one)...and not even if the script had been filled "out of our area" as at
that time the computer systems were not linked
my point was...this is the wave of the future...this will prevent the doctor
shopping..obtaining scripts from more that one provider..the Rush Limbaugh
syndrome..etc...
I just didn't know it was already here and accessible in at least one
state...BTW..other NPs in other states did NOT have such access ...YET
"lynn" <lynn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>>
>>I doubt the DEA has enuf enforcement to investigate EVERY practitioner at
>>least once a year....me thinks one has to sorta stick out .....
>>
>>BTW..meant to mention that one NP in pain management ...cannot remember
>>the
>>state...said that if her state..one merely has to make ONE phone
>>call...and
>>all scripts for a patient (for controlled meds) will "pop up"...thus
>>eliminating the problems with drug seekers,,double dippers..etc...this can
>>be done while the patient is sitting in the exam room...
>>
>>don't know of any other states that have such sophiscated "tracking
>>software"...
>>
> Actually, it seems it wouldn't be that difficult to track Sched. II
> meds because of the way the pharmacies have to keep track of them. I
> could be totally wrong, but it seems tome that as long as one gets
> their prescriptons withn a particular state, tracking ought to be a
> piece of pie. Now, I would also think that if one got prescriptions
> in, say, 2 different states (let's say one lives close to another
> state line), tracckng might be more difficult. Don't really know
> though, just supposition on my part.
>
> Lynn
>
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