Stephen Chu wrote: >David: > >The fact that prescription stationery has serial number on it does not prevent >"forgery". In one of the Auckland (NZ) tertiary hospital, a whole book of >such preprinted prescription paper was stolen not long ago with forged >prescriptions appearing in local pharmacies for amphetamine class of drugs. >It only aroused suspicion when too many of such scripts appeared within a >short time. > > Thanks Stephen. In Oz the scripts have consecutive serial numbers so presumably all "compromised" scripts could be identified (admittedly after the event).
>A more secure way to prevent forgery is electronic prescription with PKI type >of security. > > Undoubtedly. >P.S.: I have recently completed a research on electronic prescription. WRT >the issue of legislations governing prescriptions: it is a requirement by law >- almost worldwide - that pharmacies are required to have the original paper >prescriptions with the prescriber provider number and signature for >medications to be dispensed. Hospitals are allowed to "bend" the rule because >the originally signed prescriptions are held within the hospitals. Electronic >signature legislations to allow e-Prescription are only passed in a very few >countries, mainly in Europe and North America. > Do you think it will happen here? David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
