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2002 SESSION
HB 625 Practice of pharmacy.
Introduced by: Harvey B. Morgan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Practice of pharmacy. Provides greater flexibility in the practice of pharmacy to be consistent with current health care practice trends while still providing sufficient safeguards for the integrity of controlled substances and patient safety. This bill changes the definition of the "pharmacy" to include any establishment in which drugs, medicines or medicinal chemicals are dispensed or offered for sale and, thereby, authorizes pharmacists to practice in locations other than permitted pharmacies, e.g., in a clinical oncology practice providing chemotherapy; softens the restrictions on the use of chart orders with multiple prescriptions to allow for such orders for home infusion and hospice patients; clarifies that a combination of manual and automated recordkeeping may be used, so long as the required prescription information is maintained and retrievable; and authorizes alternate delivery sites for prescriptions, such as "drop stations" where patients may pick up the drugs from a central location.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Practice of pharmacy. Provides greater flexibility in the practice of pharmacy to be consistent with current health care practice trends while still providing sufficient safeguards for the integrity of controlled substances and patient safety. This bill changes the definition of the "pharmacy" to include any establishment in which drugs, medicines or medicinal chemicals are dispensed or offered for sale and, thereby, authorizes pharmacists to practice in locations other than permitted pharmacies, e.g., in a clinical oncology practice providing chemotherapy; softens the restrictions on the use of chart orders with multiple prescriptions to allow for such orders for home infusion and hospice patients; clarifies that a combination of manual and automated record keeping may be used, so long as the required prescription information is maintained and retrievable; and authorizes alternate delivery sites for prescriptions, such as "drop stations" where patients may pick up the drugs from a central location.