Health IT Now urged U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, to reform prescription drug monitoring programs in a July 10 letter.
The coalition of patient groups, provider organizations, health payers and health IT companies voice support for PDMPs, which reportedly help providers and prescribers make well-informed decisions about medications they issue patients. Health IT Now specifies providers should have access to real-time controlled substance data provided through PDMPs, which must be interoperable across state lines.
In particular, Health IT Now endorses PMDP standards proposed by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, which the council outlined in a December 2016 white paper.
"Utilizing existing interoperable standards that are employed throughout the industry today will ensure seamless implementation for providers by bringing PDMP information into their workflow and provide for the exchange of PDMP information in real-time at both the point of prescribing and dispensing," the letter reads.
Click here to read the full letter.
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