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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="12-307" title_number="12" title_name="Pharmacists and Pharmacies" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A license authorizes the licensee to practice pharmacy while the license is effective.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, a pharmacist may engage in dispensing or distributing only from a pharmacy holding a pharmacy permit issued by the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Pursuant to regulations adopted by the Board, a licensed pharmacist may engage in dispensing or distributing from a setting not holding a pharmacy permit only upon receiving the prior approval of the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall adopt regulations that authorize a pharmacist to dispense or distribute from a remote location for the benefit of a health care facility that uses a remote automated medication system in accordance with § 12–605 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A licensed pharmacist may delegate pharmacy acts to a registered pharmacy technician, pharmacy student, or pharmacy technician trainee only if the delegated pharmacy acts:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Are directly supervised by a licensed pharmacist;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Are not required to be performed by a licensed pharmacist;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Are within the education, training, experience, and area of practice of the delegating licensed pharmacist; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Are appropriate to the education, training, and experience of the registered pharmacy technician, pharmacy student, or pharmacy technician trainee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A licensed pharmacist may delegate the entry of prescription–related data into databases or patient charts to be performed at a remote location to a registered pharmacy technician or a registered pharmacy intern if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The registered pharmacy technician or registered pharmacy intern has immediate electronic access to a pharmacist who can provide assistance as needed; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The data entry:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is not required to be performed by a licensed pharmacist;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is within the education, training, experience, and area of practice of the delegating licensed pharmacist;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Is appropriate to the education, training, and experience of the registered pharmacy technician or the registered pharmacy intern; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>If the data entry involves access to protected patient information under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, can be performed in a manner that maintains the confidentiality of patient information.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
