On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 05:49:01PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote: > Presently some jurisdictions require that prescriptions be printed on > paper that was individualized to the prescriber (name, address etc) > where, further, each sheet bears a serial number. This is typical for > controlled substances (narcotics), at least in my province. Same here.
> For the above, neither faxing nor even printing onto the prescription > will work, on account of it being a duplicate (2-part) prescription. We use dot-matrix printers. They produce carbon copies due to impact printing. > Should we expect that as we get to electronic prescribing, there will > be some sort of "transaction" or "authorization" number which, > depending on the implementation, will apply either to individual > items in the queue, or will apply in common to whichever items in the > queue were transmitted during the single connection? Those things are entirely up to the vagaries of the politician of the day. Requirements presented to us will range from easy-to-forge to surprisingly-sane all the way to elaborate-beyond-practicability. Germany is currently implementing the last of those three. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
