One of the most difficult trails to trace has been to find out what medications a patient is using. In many instances, without having the records tied 
together, a patient can literally be seeing 4-5 doctors to get the same drugs, mostly pain killers or drugs that have an addictive tendency. This will be the largest of it’s kind to allow physicians to query and find a history of a patients prescriptions in real time. Right now is has been hit and miss with the physicians, perhaps using a drug test, or knowing other physicians the patient could be consulting.
Having the information available will definitely help in the chase. This also makes a case for ePrescribing as well. Hopefully this will include all the 4 part written prescriptions as well. Once those can be e-Prescribed, it will give a true audit trail. Right now the pharmacy is doing the entry with all paper based prescriptions to add to the data bases. BD
Brown is to announce Wednesday that his office plans to place the state's prescription-tracking database on a secure Web site that health-care providers can log onto to obtain the information instantly. The move is intended to make it tougher for patients to go from doctor to doctor and fill multiple prescriptions.
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