Complying with Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) Requirements
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EPCS revises DEA’s regulations to provide practitioners with the option of writing prescriptions for controlled substances electronically as well as receiving, dispensing and archiving electronic prescriptions. The electronic prescription application must incorporate a secure process for practitioner authentication.
Thales can help prepare organizations to meet these regulations through:
"Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances" revises DEA's regulations to provide practitioners with the option of writing prescriptions for controlled substances electronically. The regulations will also permit pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive electronic prescriptions.
EPCS requires medical practitioners to use two-factor authentication to sign prescriptions for medical narcotics issued in digital form.
To comply with EPCS and enable the issuing of e-prescriptions for controlled substances, hospitals and healthcare institutions must instate EPCS-compliant processes certified by an independent third party, including the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) when signing e-prescriptions for controlled substances.
Thales’ SafeNet two-factor authentication solutions let hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) embrace EPCS quickly, without changing their current infrastructure.
Offering both hardware and software-based EPCS-compliant tokens, Thales provides frictionless authentication for practitioners and frictionless management for IT staff through fully automated workflows.
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