Section Ph 1505.02 - Prescriber and Dispenser Access(a) Registered prescribers and dispensers, or their designees, and federal health prescribers and dispensers working in federal facilities located in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont shall have electronic program access to information on a specific patient, and in the case of veterinarians a specific patient's owner(s), both past and present, for which a prescription was written or an appointment was scheduled or conducted.(b) Requests shall be made by electronically or in writing.(c) Electronic requests shall be made through the program's secure web portal.(d) Written requests shall: (1) Be made by submitting to the program a completed "NH Prescriber/Dispenser Prescription Monitoring Information Request" form, effective 11/2017; and(2) Be fulfilled by secure mail or fax.(e) To enable the timely and efficient delivery of medical or pharmaceutical care for a specific patient, a prescriber or dispenser registered with the program may delegate the task of retrieving program information for a specific patient to an individual working under the direction and supervision of the registered prescriber or dispenser provided that written documentation of the delegation to the individual is provided to the program. Both the prescriber or dispenser who authorized the delegation and the individual to whom the task of retrieving the program information was delegated shall be subject to the provisions and penalties in RSA 318-B:36 regarding proper access to and use of program information.(f) All program information, as listed in Ph 1504.01(b), to the extent that it is medical information shall be treated and protected as all protected health information.(g) The program information may be placed in the patient medical records.N.H. Admin. Code § Ph 1505.02
Amended by Volume XXXVIII Number 06, Filed February 8, 2018, Proposed by #12465, Effective 1/23/2018, Expires 1/23/2028.