Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Goal: Strengthen states and territories� ability to maintain and enhance PDMPs and data integration to inform clinical decision making and abuse of prescription drugs. Support state and local governments to encourage the use of PDMPs, integration of PDMP data with health information exchanges (HIE), electronic health records (EHR), or pharmacy dispensing systems (PDS), and engaging with tribal entities and rural areas where integration rates may be lower to improve clinical decision making and detecting and preventing the diversion and abuse of pharmaceutically controlled substances such as opioids and other prescription drugs. This program helps to break the cycle of drug addiction and violence by reducing the demand for, use, and the illegal trafficking of controlled substances. Strengthen capacity and facilitate use of prescription drug data Strengthen capacity of PDMPs to share information on prescribing, dispensing, and use of prescription drugs within and between states using preferred method of choice, and via RxCheck Hub; Facilitate use of PDMP data to support law enforcement efforts, allocation of substance use disorder treatment and prevention resources, and sound clinical decision making among prescribers; and Design, implement, and advance initiatives to improve linkage, analysis, reporting, usage, and sharing of PDMP derived data.