"Biological product" a virus; therapeutic serum; toxin; antitoxin; vaccine; blood; blood component or derivative; allergenic product; protein, except any chemically synthesized polypeptide, or analogous product; or arsphenamine or derivative of arsphenamine, or any other trivalent organic arsenic compound, applicable to the prevention, treatment or cure of a disease or condition of human beings.
"Department", the department of public health.
"Interchangeable biological product", a prescription biological product (i) that has been determined by the United States Food and Drug Administration to be interchangeable with the prescribed brand name biological product pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 262 or (ii) for which an application has been approved under subsection 21 U.S.C. § 355 (b)(2) and which has been determined by the United States Food and Drug Administration to be therapeutically equivalent to the prescribed brand name biological product. For the purposes of this definition the terms "biosimilar" and "interchangeable" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 351 of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. §262.
"Practitioner", shall have the same meaning as defined in section 1 of chapter 94C.
"Written prescription", shall have the same meaning as defined in section 1 of chapter 94C.
If the pharmacist does not have the ability to make a notation in the patient's interoperable electronic health record, then the notification shall be conveyed by facsimile, electronic transmission or by making a notation in the patient's record maintained by the pharmacy, which is accessible to the practitioner by request.
A pharmacist who utilizes an interoperable electronic prescribing technology shall enter the substitution into the patient's electronic health record.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, § 12EE