Paperless prescription profile reports

In Fiscal Year 2006, Congress appropriated $7,500,000 to the U.S. Department of Justice to support the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. Prescription monitoring programs are systems where controlled substance dispensing data is submitted to a centralized database administered by an authorized state agency. These programs are designed to help prevent and detect the diversion and abuse of pharmaceutical controlled substances, particularly at the retail level where no other automated information collection system exists.

States that have implemented prescription drug monitoring programs have the capability of collecting and analyzing prescription data much more efficiently than states without such programs, where the collection of prescription information requires the manual review of pharmacy files which is a very time consuming and invasive process. The increased efficiency of prescription monitoring programs allows for the early detection of abuse trends and possible sources of diversion. The analysis of collected data also allows for the identification of outmoded prescribing practices, such as the undertreatment of pain, which may result in the development of educational programs for medical professionals.

The primary goal of Idaho Prescription Drug Monitoring Program is to build a secure web-site capable of allowing practitioners, law enforcement, state licensing boards, and Medicaid/Medicare to retrieve prescription profiles on a 24-hour basis for the Idaho Board of Pharmacy (IBOP). This database will contain information regarding controlled substance prescriptions; schedules 2-4 that are filled by Idaho community pharmacies and by out-of-state mail service pharmacies for Idaho residents. This data will be submitted directly to IBOP on a monthly basis by their Technical Records Specialist. The Technical Records Specialist will continue to be responsible for continued administration of the program.

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