Lawmakers push for modernized prescription info rules

Harshbarger, Mullin make bipartisan push on sharing prescription information electronically

Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) is part of a group of lawmakers pushing to retire a 1962 regulation mandating that prescription information be transmitted by paper. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON _ A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to eliminate a decad…