HAR §16-95-102. Procedures to advertise related pharmacy services

Advertising of related pharmacy services is to provide the public with information in a manner consistent with public health and safety and shall be truthful, reasonable, fully informative, and understandable to the public and shall not be false or misleading. A pharmacy may advertise that it performs the following services: (1) Personal medication record. To qualify as providing this service, a system must be maintained which enables the immediate retrieval of information concerning individual pharmacy patients which is of sufficient scope to enable a determination by the pharmacist of rational drug utilization. In accomplishing this purpose the design and use of the system must be to ascertain and record all patient information necessary to assist the pharmacist in avoiding adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, and inappropriate use of drugs. (2) Professional consultation with patient and practitioners. The availability of patient consultation means that the pharmacist routinely informs the patient, either directly or indirectly, on what the patient is taking, how to take it, what to expect, what special precautions should be observed, and how the medication is to be properly stored. This service is to assure that the patient understands the proper use of the drug and that the practitioner's intentions will materialize in a drug regimen of optimal effectiveness, safety, and duration. Practitioner consultation denotes the availability and practice of pharmacists acting as drug information specialists who discuss with practitioners drug effects interactions, side effects, and drugs of choice for diseased conditions. (3) "Emergency prescription service" means the providing of pharmaceutical services, which includes prescription dispensing, at any time after usual pharmacy hours. This means that a pharmacist is available, can be readily contacted, and will respond with reasonable expediency at any hour, day or night, in a manner consistent with security and personal safety. Should the pharmacy choose to advertise the performance of the foregoing services, it shall conform with the definition of that service as herein set forth. [Eff and comp 12/24/92; comp 12/25/04; am and comp 06/22/15; comp 8/15/16] (Auth: HRS §461-4.5) (Imp: HRS §§461-1, 461-4.5, 461-21)