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3.__Waiver.__The office may grant a waiver of the electronic
submission requirement under subsection 1 to any dispenser for
good cause, including financial hardship, as determined by the
office.__The waiver must state the format and frequency with
which the dispenser is required to submit the required
information.

 
4.__Immunity from liability.__A dispenser is immune from
liability for disclosure of information if the disclosure was
made pursuant to and in accordance with this chapter.

 
§7250.__Access to prescription monitoring information and

 
confidentiality

 
1.__Confidentiality.__Except as provided in this section,
prescription monitoring information submitted to the office is
confidential and is not a public record as defined in Title 1,
section 402, subsection 3.

 
2.__Review of information.__If the prescription monitoring
information surpasses thresholds as established by the office,
the office shall notify the prescriber, the dispenser and, if the
office determines it to be necessary, the professional licensing
entity and provide all relevant prescription monitoring
information to those persons and entities through an established
letter of notification.

 
3.__Permissible disclosure of information.__The office 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 medicine, nursing or other boards
representing health care disciplines whose licensees are
prescribers, as required for an investigation, with
reasonable cause;


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