- (1) The department may provide prescription monitoring information in a format established by the department to any public or private entity for statistical, research, or educational purposes.
- (2) Before the department releases any requested information, the department shall remove information that could be used to identify individual patients, dispensers, prescribers, and persons who received prescriptions from dispensers.
- (3) To obtain information from the program a public or private entity shall submit a request in a format established by the department.
- (4) All requests for, uses of, and disclosures of prescription monitoring information by the requesting entity must be consistent with the program's mandate as outlined in RCW 70.225.040 and this chapter.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.225 RCW and 2007 c 259. WSR 11-16-041, § 246-470-080, filed 7/27/11, effective 8/27/11.]