Hc1.com, the Indianapolis startup focused on healthcare relationship management and data analytics, recently scored $7 million in new capital to expand its presence in the market and drive further adoption of its products, including the…

Opioid addiction is on the rise in America, and pharmacies are now taking steps to do whatever it takes to decrease the number of opioid overdoses that happen each year.

New Hampshire has adopted the real-time, stop-sale National Precursor Log Exchange technology, becoming the 35th state to adopt the system used by retailers across the country to help prevent the illegal sale of pseudoephedrine.

Every state outside of Missouri already has a PDMP in place, but issues with data standardization and differences in regulations inhibit their potential.

When I was training to be an Air Force Pilot in 1987, one of the many things I was required to commit to memory — verbatim — and to practice religiously in a T37 aircraft was how to pull an out-of-control plane out of a spin.

Providing interoperability and data sharing among state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s® (NABP’s®) interstate data hub, NABP PMP InterConnect® positions the 45 states that are…

A nationally interoperable PDMP network that shares prescribing data across state lines is popular among health IT and drug abuse experts that see it as one of several tools to improve data collection and integrate clinical decision support…

In January, North Carolina’s Controlled Substances Reporting System joined the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s data-sharing network, PMP InterConnect, to help reduce prescription drug misuse.

The state combines a substance use disorder system with its PDMP to deliver interactive visualizations in clinical workflows that have already reduced over- prescribing and -dispensing of opioids and saved $1 million annually.