EPCS Waivers Guidance
March 18, 2016 |
New York Electronic Prescribing Waivers Guidance for Specific Types of Prescriptions The New York Department of Health, pursuant to questions received from NCPDP members as well as other industry stakeholders, has released guidance as to how to handle specific types of prescriptions that currently are not well suited to electronic prescribing. Said guidance waives, until March 27, 2017, the requirement that these specific prescription types be electronically prescribed as required by New York’s iSTOP law. The key portion of this guidance is reproduced below. The New York Commissioner of Health, in a letter, has waived the following circumstances from the requirements of electronic prescribing:
This waiver for the above-listed exceptional circumstances shall be effective until March 27, 2017. |