Obtaining a Medical Document with E-Prescribing

When Licensed Producers under the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) think of the long process of obtaining a medical document from a patient or physician, they often imagine it as a huge hurtle to overcome - a pain in the neck. Health Canada allows for e-prescribing or secure fax for obtaining the original medical document - a method not many MMPR applicants know of.

The traditional method for obtaining the medical document is receiving the prescription via snail mail, and phoning the physician endlessly until you are able to reach them, only to find out a patient attempted to add another “0″ to the end of the prescription making it “300″ grams rather than “30″ grams.

Thankfully, technology has brought us into a new age of automation, allowing us to transfer data quickly. Specific provinces allow for physicians to submit the original medical document electronically (which makes...

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