Recently watched a terrifying view of the Illegal Pill Shops in Florida and subsequently read a report on the number of illegal prescriptions written from stolen prescription pads or written by Dr. "FeelGoods" Then it dawned on me ... electronic prescriptions written at the doctors office which could be printed or sent directly to the pharmacy. Each would have a code on it identifying the doctor, date, and patient. It would eliminate fraud from illegally written prescriptions, it would allow tracking of prescriptions of dangerous pain killers (OXY series) and would reduce the incidents of pharmacies miss reading the prescription (medicine or dosage or both).
Some might counter a POTENTIAL invasion of privacy, but I would counter that we have an epidemic of prescription abuse that needs to be deterred.
