CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Point-of-Care Partners, a leading health information technology (HIT) strategy and management consulting firm, has launched the ePrescribing State Law On-Demand -- a new solution designed to enable EHR and ePrescribing vendors to quickly assess the evolving regulatory environment for electronic prescribing.
This has been an explosive year for new legislative mandates, many of which directly impact how medications are prescribed through electronic health records (EHRs). The trend is accelerating, particularly as states attempt to reign in the opioid epidemic. From April to June 2017, 62 new ePrescribing regulations were issued across 26 states. Examples include mandated electronic prescribing, controlled substance prescribing limits, requirements for prescribers to check the state Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) database, and biosimilar substitution rules.
“Opioid prescribing limits are being enacted to guide prescribers to be more intentional about prescribing the minimum amount needed to address patient pain. There is little consistency in how the states are addressing these problems. Prescribers may need new forms of decision support through their EHR to guide them,” said Connie Sinclair, RPh, Director of Point-of-Care Partners’ (POCP) Regulatory Resource Center.
State PDMPs continue to tighten up prescriber access mandates and requirements are becoming more complex. As Point-of-Care Partners has projected, states are very interested in PDMP integration and interoperability with EHRs. A few still prohibit data sharing, but more are legislating to facilitate data access via the EHRs.
The new State Law On-Demand includes summarized ePrescribing regulations for all 50 states and Washington, DC. Updated within the most recent 3 months, this data snapshot provides easy-to-reference information that simplifies regulatory compliance monitoring.
"We are excited to make our valuable regulatory research available to a broader audience in this new abbreviated format,” said Sinclair. “On-Demand can be purchased on an as-needed basis, and downloaded immediately. It offers an up-to-date snapshot of ePrescribing state law, providing a cost-effective alternative to our premium service, the ePrescribing State Law Review subscription."
About Point-of-Care Partners
Point-of-Care Partners is a health IT management consulting firm with in-depth expertise in ePrescribing, eMedication management, health information exchange, population health management and multi-stakeholder initiatives.
To learn more, visit www.pocp.com/regulatory-resource-center or email resources@pocp.com.
Related Link: https://www.pocp.com/opioid-related-trends-impacting-ehrs/
