More than five years after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an interim final rule that legalized electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS), providers and pharmacies are slowly starting to embrace the change.
The initial rule, in March 2010, mandated usage of two-factor authentication technology to enable EPCS. The DEA argued that this would quell previous concerns about potential drug diversion, altering and forgery of controlled, addictive substances. For