The DEA states that electronic prescribing of controlled substances becomes available June 1. This is true only in the most strict sense, in that requirements for eRx will be published.
However, for transmission to actually happen, all parties must be "certified." DEA defines what sort of companies can accomplish this, but these companies need to get processes and procedures in place. Since 3 separate processes will be involved, it will be some time for all the pieces to be in place: 1) doctors will need to be identified and get a hard token of some sort that would be used to access prescribing software. 2) Criterions and its eRx partners will need to be "certified." 3) Pharmacies need to be "certified."
The easiest part of this is the Criterions piece. There will be much confusion for doctors. Pharmacies take a long time to change software.
Bottom line,it will be a while.
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