Tag: opioid abuse
Enhancing Today’s Health IT to Stem the Tide of Opioid Abuse
By Michael Burger, Senior Consultant I read with interest Joel White’s Op-Ed piece entitled Leverage the Power of Health IT to Stem the Tide of Opioid Abuse. One statement stood …
Five Ways the Opioid Epidemic Impacts Electronic Health Records
By Connie Sinclair, Director, Regulatory Resource Center Lawmakers are reacting to America’s opioid epidemic by creating new mandates that will affect electronic health records (EHRs). Compliance will create many challenges …
Missouri Creates a Unique PDMP
By Connie Sinclair, Director, Regulatory Resource Center Until recently, Missouri was the only state without a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). Growing evidence suggests that use of these state-run databases …
States Step Up Focus on PDMP Utilization to Address Opioid Crisis
By Connie Sinclair, Senior Consultant As the opiate crisis receives ongoing national attention, state policymakers and legislators continue to chip away at the problem with new laws and rules governing …
Integrating EHRs and PDMPs: How Vendors Can Get Ahead of the Curve
By Michael Burger, Senior Consultant Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) were created in 2002 as a tool to help address the growing problems of prescription drug abuse and diversion. PDMPs …
There’s No Stopping I-STOP
By Tony Schueth As the Point-of-Care Partners (POCP) team travels the country for conferences and client engagements, we often get asked about New York’s I-STOP (Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing …
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