...seems to be that there is universal access to health care and that prescriptions written equals prescriptions filled. Now, I know that the better cruise ships only stop at places where you see happy people, but gee, guys, uh, there's a large chunk of statistics that would have to be assumed, in which case why bother with pharmacy records at all? My guess at 4 am is that this is precisely why we need registries--because there's just no way to extrapolate the data. But of course I could be off track with my guess.

Didn't our colleagues in California succeed in getting one started there? What was on their "ask" list and what background did they cite? I'm expecting that Carey will know something about this.

Jaye