New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has proposed a bill that would require physicians and pharmacists to use an electronic database of a patient’s prescription history when writing and filling a prescription for certain narcotics, according to a Times Union report.
Physicians and pharmacists would use the database, called the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing and which has up-to-the-minute information on pertinent patient information and prescription details, before dispensing narcotics such as hydrocodone, oxycodone and Xanax, the report said.
Physicians or pharmacists who fail to report information to the database, fail to review patient data before prescribing or disclose and dispense private patient information to a third party may be fined.
The report said the proposed bill aims to stop drug seekers and curb prescription drug trafficking.
Read the Times Union report on I-STOP.
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