2.__Review of information.__The department shall review the prescription monitoring information. If the department has a reasonable suspicion that a violation of law, administrative rule or professional standards by any person may have occurred, the department shall notify the prescriber, the dispenser and the applicable professional licensing entity and provide all relevant prescription monitoring information to those persons and entities.

3.__Permissible disclosure of information.__The department may provide prescription monitoring information for public research, policy or education purposes as long as all information reasonably likely to reveal the patient or other person who is the subject of the information has been removed.

4.__Access to information. The following persons may access prescription monitoring information:

A.__A prescriber, insofar as the information relates to a patient under the prescriber's care;

B.__A dispenser, insofar as the information relates to a customer of the dispenser seeking to have a prescription filled;

C.__The executive director, or a board investigator as designated by each board, of the state boards of licensure of podiatric medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, osteopathy, veterinary, nursing or other boards representing health care disciplines whose licensees are prescribers, as required for an investigation;

D.__A patient to whom a prescription is written, insofar as the information relates to that patient; and

E.__Department personnel or personnel of any vendor or contractor, as necessary for establishing and maintaining the system.

§13826.__Unlawful acts and penalties

1.__Failure to submit information.__A dispenser who knowingly fails to submit prescription monitoring information to the department as required by this subchapter is subject to