Stuart wrote:
> Subject: RE: Prescription Fraud
LOTS OF SNIPPING
> On Wednesday, January 14, 1998 2:28 PM, [log in to unmask]
> [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> > * which Pharmacy does the e-script go to? Or does the e-script go
> > to some sort of clearing house? If it is the latter, we have some
> > fairly challenging problems in controlling the security of a large
> > data base, which almost by definition must contain the patient
> > identitiy for each e-script.
> > >
> >
> Would it not be possible for the presciber to have list of dispensing
> chemists and ask the patient "Which Chemist are you going to?" - Click -
> "Your presciption is at the chemist now"
>
> Stuart
Perfectly possible. The problem then is that the patient MUST go to
that specific pharmacy. In 99% of cases that is not a problem of
course; but there will always be the patient who for some reason
after leaving the surgery decides to go some other pharmacist, and
who then strops up because he (it would usually be he, women are far
too sensible) cannot do so. In theory the newly selected pharmacist
could, of course, collect the script from the one to hwom it had been
sent in the first place. But then the patient would probably have
forgotten who that was.
I am not being facetious; I am trying to pont out that as in all of
these things, the devil is in the detail.
Mike Wells
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