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D -- CREATE SOFTWARE FOR DATABASE POC Peter Gookins, Orange County Sheriffs Ofc, 55 West Pineloch Ave. Orlando, Fl 32806 Tel: (407) 836-4601. The U.S. DOJ,Drug Enforcement Administration, in conjunction with the Orange Co. Sheriff's Office is examining the creation of a voluntary program to combat criminal misuse and diversion of prescription drugs. The intent is to create a pilot project involving the Orange Co. Sheriff's Office and pharmacies in Orange County which will determine the feasibility of replicating such voluntary programs in other jurisdictions to reduce illegal prescription drug abuse. This project will gather limited data from pharmacies in a real-time mode to identify multiple same-drug prescriptions from a single physician, multiple same-drug prescriptions for a single individual from multiple physicians and fraudulent or stolen prescriptions. The purpose of the project is not to compromise in any way the legitimate dispensing of medications, nor to inhibit the use of any prescription medication by patients. It is understood that there are privacy concerns surrounding this information; to that end, although all controlled substances prescription data will be collected, only that information directly related to identifying illegal activities will be compiled and made available to law enforcement. These data are: substance; physician DEA number; pharmacy DEA number; prescription fill date; quantity; and patient ID number for those instances involving multiple dispensing of the same drug(s) over a defined time period from multiple pharmacies. As the data is to be usedc to identify active illegal activities, no long-term retention of data is required or desired. Other jurisdictions have been considering programs such as this one using similar parameters. The DEA and the Orange County Sheriff's Office are seeking information to assist us in determining if such a project is feasible. Vendors are invited to suggest both hardware and software required to meet the needs of this pilot project. (0176)

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