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Opioid plan offers hope that docs may get real-time prescription info

March 21, 2018

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The new Trump administration program to fight the opioid crisis is suggesting a constructive data-based approach to monitoring problematic prescriptions through its proposal for a national prescription drug monitoring network, says the head of Health IT Now, an industry coalition.

“Instead of tinkering around the edges with tweaks to our existing Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, the White House’s opioid plan looks to be taking a bolder stance: embracing our proposal for a new nationwide interoperable prescription safety alert system,” says Joel White, executive director at Health IT Now, representing patient, provider, employer and insurance organizations seeking incentives to use health information technologies to improve care and outcomes.

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