will verify the identity of the patient by taking the patient 39 s bioid at that location 310 this information will be entered into the system at a computer terminal together with the prescribing information on the prescription and any relevant comments will be entered in a text box the software will encode the biometric data and then encrypt that data along with the prescribing information any text comments and the identity of the provider or pharmacy entering the data into the system of note is that neither the patient 39 s name nor other identifying information such as social security number is transmitted to the server the prescription the patient 39 s bioid and the name of the pharmacy are then sent to the central server 320 where a series of checks will be made to verify the accuracy and propriety of the prescription as noted in connection with the initial entry of a prescription into the central server the order of steps taken by the central server is not critical and the sequence depicted in fig3 is exemplary rather than mandatory the central server will check the patient 39 s bioid for a match 330 even if the patient has not previously filled a prescription there should be a matching bioid that was furnished by the prescribing physician if there is no matching bioid an anomaly is noted 340 and a new patient record is created and cross referenced with an a n code 350 under these circumstances the most likely cause of there being no match is that the physician 39 s office has not yet submitted the prescription information to the central server or the prescribing physician is not.