Terms Used In South Carolina Code 44-117-360

  • Board: means the State Board of Pharmacy. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Routing company: means a business that electronically receives a prescription or any other confidential information from a prescriber and transmits the prescription or confidential information to or from the pharmacy specified by the patient in accordance with a contract between the routing company and the prescriber or a company that provides computer software for the management of the prescriber's practice. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
The board may refuse to issue or renew, or may suspend, revoke, restrict the license or the registration of, or fine its licensees, routing company, or other entity subject to their jurisdiction for each incident that allows the divulging or revealing of confidential information to a person other than a person authorized by this article or any other provision of law or for each incident allowing an intervening person or entity to have access to view, read, manipulate, alter, store, or delete the electronic prescription before it is received by the pharmacy. For all other licensees, the board must refer the matter to the board of appropriate jurisdiction.
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