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Utah House approves statewide prescription database after heated privacy debate
Summary
The House passed Senate Bill 42 to create a statewide controlled-substance prescription database, 48–25, after hours of debate about privacy, hacking risks and whether the system will reduce doctor- and pharmacy-shopping.
The Utah House on March 1 approved Senate Bill 42, a measure to create a statewide database of controlled-substance prescriptions intended to help doctors and pharmacists spot people seeking multiple prescriptions. The bill passed 48–25.
Sponsor Representative Bradshaw told colleagues the database "establishes a controlled substance database, which will contain data on every prescription for a controlled substance dispensed to any person other than inpatient in a licensed health care facility in a hospital," and argued the tool…
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