(1) The department may provide prescription monitoring information in a format established by the department to any public or private entity for statistical, research, or educational purposes.

(2) Before the department releases any requested information, the department shall remove information that could be used to identify individual patients, dispensers, prescribers, and persons who received prescriptions from dispensers.

(3) To obtain information from the program a public or private entity shall submit a request in a format established by the department.

(4) All requests for, uses of, and disclosures of prescription monitoring information by the requesting entity must be consistent with the program's mandate as outlined in RCW 70.225.040 and this chapter.