Yes but Adam which pharmacy and just how many different pharmacys is your patient using and shopping. Are they doc shopping. I think it is interesting that the one feature we all really need from all this "E" Rx CCHIT is the one feature nobody seems to be interested in actually making and implimenting and that is allowing us, you guys real time access to what meds the patient is on and how many other Rx's does any one patient have where and written by who? Only the DEA and other enforcement folks have access to that and yet they seem to get mad at a good many docs who in good faith thing they understand what is up with the patient and who they are seeing and getting meds from, like only their office. And yet it is this type of real time information that you guys need to be able to be good gatekeepers concerning access to all these meds.
So instead of them all getting into your offices and your records what we really need is a way to tie together all pharmacy records with free and easy real time access for you to see and help track what your patients really are doing. Now that is what good tech could actually do for all of us. But does big Pharma really want tight controls on all of this? I'm straining to remember now, but just how much of their sales end up on the black market for abuse? I think it may be as high as 20-33% but I don't want to speak such slander out of hand. Does anyone know for sure? Anyway, I'm sure big Pharma wants good tight regulation of access to abusable drugs just about as much as the gun makers would like to see good effective gun control.... "A well regulated militia.... "
