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Texas pharmacy board adopts rules allowing drone delivery of noncontrolled prescriptions
Summary
The Texas State Board of Pharmacy voted to adopt rules allowing pharmacies to deliver prescription drugs by unmanned aircraft systems (drones) under specified packaging, temperature, documentation and carrier-responsibility standards after stakeholder support from health systems and delivery companies.
The Texas State Board of Pharmacy on Aug. 5 adopted amendments to delivery rules that allow pharmacies to deliver prescriptions — excluding controlled substances and sterile compounded preparations — by unmanned aircraft systems when the patient and pharmacist agree on the delivery location.
Board staff said the package amends existing delivery rules to add definitions for “contract carrier,” specify nationally recognized standards for handling drugs during delivery, require pharmacies to document chain-of-custody changes, and require pharmacies to develop written policies and procedures for personnel preparing, packaging and verifying deliveries.
The rule package, presented by board staff, adds that pharmacies remain responsible for problems in delivery performed by contract carriers, requires commercially available…
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