“… In her testimony before the subcommittee, Vice Admiral Raquel Bono, MD, director of the Defense Health Agency, acknowledged that there are currently limitations on this kind of data sharing.
“Principal among these limitations is that due to operational security concerns, military treatment facility (MTF) pharmacies cannot currently share opioid prescribing information from MTFs with state PDMPs,” testified Bono. “Additionally, a military provider has no visibility of an opioid prescription obtained through a cash transaction at a civilian pharmacy.”
According to Bono, those kinds of transactions are captured by state PDMPs but not DoD’s Pharmacy Data Transaction Service (PDTS), which enables military providers to view opioid prescriptions obtained at a civilian pharmacy or through the mail order program and billed through TRICARE.
However, Bono assured the subcommittee that DoD is working to enhance its ability to share data on its beneficiaries with…” Read the full article here.
Source: Health Data Management: DoD lacks data sharing with state prescription drug monitoring programs – By Greg Slabodkin. June 25, 2018, 7:17am EDT.
