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05-01-2018

Opioid epidemic: Why aren’t prescription drug monitoring programs more effective?

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

04-30-2018

Internal Investigations Expanding into an Omnichannel World

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Presented by David Speights, PhD, Chief Data Scientist, at the RILA AP Conference on April 30, 2018.

04-26-2018

Artificial Intelligence and eCommerce Return Fraud Prevention

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Presented by Jerry Boersma, Chief Software Architect, at Retail Risk London on 26 April 2018.

04-23-2018

Using Air Force ‘boldface’ to ease the opioid crisis

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.

03-28-2018

NABP PMP InterConnect Is the Answer to White House Call for National Interoperability of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

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…

03-26-2018

Platform enables state programs to share opioid prescription information

Appriss Health, in collaboration with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), developed and operates PMP InterConnect, which does not house any data but acts as a…

03-21-2018

Drug safety experts react to Trump’s plan to build a ‘nationally interoperable’ PDMP

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…

03-16-2018

Harris Teeter, Kroger join fight against prescription drug misuse

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.

03-15-2018

How Michigan kicked its PDMP up a notch to clamp down on doctors overprescribing opioids

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.

03-08-2018

Number of painkiller prescriptions continues to fall in Ohio

The state says the number of painkiller prescriptions continues to fall as Ohio battles a deadly addictions epidemic.