Saturday, June 7, 2025
6/7/2025
The West Virginia Prescription Drug Monitoring Expansion Project - Statewide - The West Virginia Prescription Drug Monitoring Expansion Project will improve the interoperability of the current prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) operated by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to enhance real-time access to controlled-substance prescribing and utilization information to better coordinate communication among prescribers, pharmacies and monitoring programs. The project will facilitate the production and distribution of reports and alerts to prescribers and dispensers of prescriptions and the electronic exchange of information through the PDMP and the state health information exchange to provide timely access to critical prescription information to front-line prescribers and dispensers in hospital Emergency Departments, outpatient and ambulatory facilities and retail pharmacy operations. The population to be served is the entire 1.8 million residents of West Virginia, particularly those with prescriptions for controlled substances and those that engage in the abuse of prescription drugs and "doctor-shopping". This includes the 5.46% of individuals aged 12 or older who reported nonmedical use of pain relievers in the past year (approximately 75,000 individuals). The project will also serve approximately 5,000 licensed health care providers with prescriptive privileges, 62 hospitals and 495 retail pharmacies in West Virginia.
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