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$1.4M Grant Supports PDMP EHR Integration to Combat Opioid Crisis

The million dollars in federal funding aims to improve EHR integrations for the state’s prescription drug monitoring programs as a way to tackle the nationwide opioid crisis.

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By Sarai Rodriguez

- The Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) is expanding its effort to address the opioid crisis with $1.4 million in grant funding to support PDMP EHR integration throughout New Jersey.

Health experts say PDMPs enable better prescribing practices, target treatment to at-risk patients, monitor the use of opioid painkillers, and mitigate the risk of potential abuse or fraud by patients who obtain prescriptions from multiple providers.

These state-run electronic databases are utilized in nearly every state across the country. The program assembles pharmacy and patient data from Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) controlled substances and prescription drugs list.