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Validating the DEA Number in Siebel Pharma Handheld Applications

In the U.S., the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number is a federally authorized number for physicians with a practice at a specific address.

In Siebel Pharma Handheld, the DEA number is stored at the address level for each physician. The Siebel Pharma Handheld application can confirm that a valid DEA number is populated at the selected address for a professional call. Depending on how your Handheld application is configured, the valid DEA number check can be performed at the time of entering the DEA number, upon launching the Siebel Signature Capture display, or both.

If both of the following are true:

• The product dropped is a controlled substance.
• The user property Validate Address DEA Number or Validate Signature DEA Number is true.

then Siebel Pharma Handheld checks the validity of the DEA number by executing the algorithm described in Table 22.