Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP)
Legislation in 2007 gave the Department of Health authority to create a Prescription Monitoring Program. The program’s purpose is to
improve patient care and stop prescription drug misuse by collecting all the records for schedule II, III, IV, and V drugs. This information is then made available to medical providers and pharmacists as a tool in patient care. The state law creating the program is
RCW 70.225.
The program is a patient safety tool. Practitioners will have access to the information before they prescribe or dispense drugs. This will help to prevent overdoses, prevent misuse, and promote referrals for pain management and
for treatment of addiction.
The program rules
(WAC 246-470) became effective on August 27, 2011.
The program started data collection from all
dispensers
on October 7, 2011.
Providers can
now register at
http://www.wapmp.org/practitioner/pharmacist/.
Provider
access to patient prescription information is scheduled to begin
on January 4, 2012.
For more information, please contact Chris Baumgartner, Program Director, at 360.236.4806 or
prescriptionmonitoring@doh.wa.gov .
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