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SureScripts on Tuesday unveiled a Internet internet site that may allow wellness care workers to access the prescription details of people who live in locations impacted by natural disasters, the AP/Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. Soon after an earthquake, hurricane or other disaster, representatives for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores along with the National Community Pharmacists Association would decide regardless of whether to open the Net site, www.icerx.org, which would make accessible the prescription histories of folks from zip codes within the affected areas. Emergency responders towards the 2005 hurricanes stated that one of the greatest health care troubles they faced was supplying the right prescription drugs to evacuees who didn’t don’t forget what medicines they had been taking. A prototype of the existing Net internet site, www.katrinahealth.org, was launched three weeks following Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast (AP/Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 4/23). Numerous drug store chains have their own Web sites for traveling customers, but the SureScripts program, named Rx History, will share info from major pharmacies. SureScripts spokesperson Rob Cronin stated that the company’s program is eventually to expand the program from emergency-only use to routine use (Steenhuysen, Reuters, 4/24). Because of privacy concerns, the Web web site will not incorporate records of treatments for “sensitive” conditions, based on SureScripts (AP/Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 4/23).

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