New Coalition Pushes Opioid Strategies Including Data-Sharing Across PDMPs

By Beth Wang / January 25, 2018 at 5:39 PM
A working group of prescribers, dispensers, manufacturers and professional societies is pushing a slate of reforms to help curb the opioid epidemic, which includes supporting funding to upgrade prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) technology, expanding substance use disorder treatment options and ensuring patients' medical history is available in real-time so that providers and pharmacists have access to patient information. Health IT Now, on Thursday (Jan. 25), announced a new Opioid Safety Alliance, which comprises members and non-members of Health IT...

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