Pursuant to HB2165 and SB1230, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources will convene a workgroup of interested stakeholders to review actions necessary for the implementation of the provisions requiring prescriptions containing opiates to be issued as electronic prescriptions by July 1, 2020, and to evaluate hardships on prescribers, the inability of prescribers to comply with the deadline for electronic prescribing and make recommendations to the General Assembly for any extension or exemption processes relative to compliance or disruptions due to natural or manmade disasters or technology gaps, failures or interruptions of services.  

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