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NCPDP Creates New Work Group Focused on Innovation and Care Coordination To Develop and Enhance Standards that Support Pharmacist-provided Clinical Services

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NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs)


SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (PRWEB)

NCPDP announced the creation of Work Group 20 Care Coordination & Innovation, which will focus on promoting and scaling current and new NCPDP standards that support the expanded role of pharmacists in providing patient care services. Pharmacists are trusted, trained medication experts who can monitor, evaluate and recommend drug therapy and other services to provide whole-person, patient-centered care. The work group aims to enable pharmacists to collaborate in new ways with other healthcare providers to close gaps in care and improve care coordination, which is a top priority of NCPDP. This could support the role of pharmacists in value-based models of care, social determinants of health, precision medicine, digital health, and more.

Work Group 20 Coordination of Care & Innovation will meet on August 2nd during NCPDP’s Joint Technical Work Group Meetings which take place August 2-4, 2023, at The Davenport Grand in Spokane, Washington. The Work Group Meetings are open to NCPDP members and non-members. Online registration, which includes access to all work groups meeting at the event, is open until Friday, July 21, 2023. View the schedule and register at https://standards.ncpdp.org/work-group-registration-information.aspx?ID=WGAug23.

About NCPDP

The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) is a not-for-profit American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) consisting of more than 1,500 members representing entities including, but not limited to, claims processors, data management and analysis vendors, federal and state government agencies, insurers, intermediaries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, professional services organizations, software and system vendors and other parties interested in electronic standardization within the pharmacy services sector of the healthcare industry. NCPDP provides a forum wherein our diverse membership can develop business solutions, including ANSI-accredited standards and guidance for promoting information exchanges related to medications, supplies and services within the healthcare system.

NCPDP has been named in federal legislation, including HIPAA, MMA, and HITECH. NCPDP members have created standards such as the Telecommunication Standard and Batch Standard, the SCRIPT Standard for ePrescribing, the Manufacturers Rebate Standard and more to improve communication within the pharmacy industry. Our data products include dataQ®, a robust database of information on more than 80,000 pharmacies, resQ™, an industry pharmacy credentialing resource, and HCIdea®, an innovative prescriber database that provides continually updated information on more than 3.7 million prescribers. NCPDP’s RxReconn® is a legislative tracking program for real-time monitoring of pharmacy-related state and national legislative and regulatory activity. For more information about NCPDP Standards, Data Services, Products, Educational Programs and Work Group Meetings, go online at http://www.ncpdp.org or call 480.477.1000.

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