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Can you even do paper prescriptions any more? I've only had digital ones my entire adult life.

Quick edit to answer my own question: In my home state paper prescriptions are only legal in a few situations (if it's for an animal, glasses, justifiable emergencies). However in some parts of the country they're still possible. Even if I had a choice, I prefer the convenience of sending the data digitally- once you actual fill the paper prescription CVS or whoever is still gonna be able to glean sensitive medical info, so you're just delaying the inevitable.

>>Rebelg+(OP)
Yes, but they're inconvenient as can possibly be. Pharmacies here seem like they have digital prescriptions available the same day, while I almost always have to return another day when dropping off a paper prescription.

>>blkfnw+b
Electronic prescriptions being faster is only faster if they prioritize them over paper orders. The bottleneck in speed is waiting for the pharmacist to verify it. If they're not too busy the process can run to completion while you travel from the doctor's office. If they're busy due to short staffing or heavy demand your escript is part of a several hundred long queue.

>>Rebelg+(OP)
Go to any emergency room here in Winnipeg and yeah they will send you home with a handwritten prescription.

>>supert+33
What's stopping them from making a cert and encoding it in a QR code? It was perfectly possible with covid vaccination certificates.

>>petre+Rj
Verify as in check for drug interactions and catch any medication errors by the physician.

>>Rebelg+(OP)
Yes! You can!

And in fact, if your provider is doing ePrescribing, odds are they are contributing to supporting a Monopoly by SureScriots who has cornered the market emwith anti-competitive business practices!

DEA still issues serialized paper prescription pads.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/04/...

Everytime an ePrescription goes over the wire, this one weird company based out of Virginia is likely shotgunning your personal info as collected by PBM's/health insurers between all parties involved, (with the obligatory copy for themselves, probably "anonymized and repackaged for monetizable exposure to research groups), and in the contractual terms requiring that people in the network not make arrangements with anyone else for the service.

As a common victim of the perniciousness of this arrangement. I'm more than familiar with how this nonsense goes.