All, Has anyone been asked the question regarding transfer of prescriptions? How are you handling patients that may get a prescription and then visit multiple pharmacies to find the best price? If they have a prescription electronically sent how can they still do this? There are patients who may get medications filled at more than one pharmacy. If a medication is stocked out at a particular pharmacy but a competitor across the street has the product how will the patient be able to fill their script w/out delay? Will the provider need to send an additional prescription to another pharmacy? These are a couple questions that we are concerned about going forward and are forcing us to question how hard we want to push on this initiative at this time. Any comments would be appreciated. Thank you, Brian Brian R. Dodge RPh Oneida Healthcare Center Director of Pharmacy 321 Genesee Street Phone (315) 363-6000 ext. 1480 fax (315) 361-2128 -----Original Message----- From: nyschp.dop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nyschp.dop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Briscoe-Dwyer, Leigh Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 10:27 AM To: nyschp.dop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [nyschp.dop] Re: Questions regarding E-Prescribing and Automated Dispensing Systems The bill to postpone the mandate for Eprescribing has passed both sides of the legislature in NY and needs to be signed by the Governor. This will delay the mandate but it will not, to my knowledge, interfere with anyone who is ready to proceed sooner. Leigh Briscoe-Dwyer, Pharm.D.,BCPS, FASHP Chief Pharmacy and Medication Safety Officer NorthShore LIJ Health System 516-396-6248 Office ________________________________________ From: nyschp.dop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [nyschp.dop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of MCHUGH ADELE [amchugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:50 AM To: nyschp.dop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [nyschp.dop] Questions regarding E-Prescribing and Automated Dispensing Systems Good morning, I am looking for some input regarding different automated dispensing systems such as Pyxis or Omnicell, your thoughts, opinions. For a small inpatient psychiatric hospital.....124 beds. I have experience with Pyxis, however would like to know if any Directors have other experiences that they would or would not recommend. Also, we have received unofficial notification that the March deadline for E-Prescribing has been postponded until 2016. We are already e-prescribing using a program which is due for renewal in three months.....Does anyone have any official information regarding the March 27, 2015 deadline and the postponement? Thank you all. Adele Adele M. McHugh, M.S., RPhI Director of Pharmacy Brunswick Hospital Center 81 Louden Avenue Amityville, New York 11701 631-789-7299 [cid:image001.png@01D05719.0A0DCD60] ________________________________ Privacy Notification: This message and accompanying documents are covered by the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, and contain information intended for the specified individual(s) only. This information is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or the taking of any action based on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or fax and destroy the original message. The information contained in this electronic e-mail transmission and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom or to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this communication is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this communication and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and electronic mail, and delete the original communication and any attachment from any computer, server or other electronic recording or storage device or medium. Receipt by anyone other than the intended recipient is not a waiver of any attorney-client, physician-patient or other privilege.