Brief of Court Case
Walgreen Co. vs. Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board
Citation: It was decided on February 19, 1998.
Wisconsin Appellate Court
The owner and operator of several pharmacies of the Walgreen Company in Wisconsin violated various regulatory statutes and administrative rules relating to pharmacies when it accepted prescription orders form physicians by a computer electronic mail system and provided used computers for some of the physicians participating in the test.
Facts: The Walgreen Co. is a national company. It does business with pharmaceutical medicine. Walgreen tested a computer system it had developed whereby ten physicians electronically transmitted prescriptions to a Walgreen pharmacy. Each