What's incredibly stupid about these rules is that it's a lot easier to produce a forged handwritten narcotic script compared to electronic prescription. I can't tell you how many time I have caught people redhanded trying to forge hardcopy prescriptions.... just think how many that have not been caught.
With electronic prescription, there is a electronic trail of where the scripts originate.
In the state of Washington, electronic prescriptions have not taken off because of the rate at which the Board of Pharmacy is approving prescribers, EMR vendors, and pharmacy for e-scripting. At the current rate, it would take hundreds of years to get everyone in Washington approved for e-scripts.
