NCPDP Foundation Funds New Project to Streamline REMS Process for the Industry
The NCPDP Foundation, InfoWerks will lead a project aimed at streamlining data exchange for the FDA’s Risk Evaluation
and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) plan. Supported with a $190,000 NCPDP Foundation grant, the project will rely on the
REMS transaction within the NCPDP SCRIPT standard. It aims to show how the standard can significantly enhance
patient safety and ease administrative burdens by reducing manual processing delays.
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NCPDP’s National Facilitator Model Pilot Project Enters Second Phase
The NCPDP Foundation announced funding of phase two of its developmental efforts for the NCPDP National Facilitator Model.
STChealth was granted $150,000 to continue to lead research efforts, further building on the success of the first phase of the
project. The National Facilitator Model helps pharmacies, prescribers, and government agencies surveil public health and
respond more effectively to pandemics and public health crises like the opioid epidemic by providing information on
prescriptions, testing, immunizations, and related data in real time at multiple points of care.
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Announcing the NCPDP Foundation 2023 Annual Report!
We’re excited to announce the release of the NCPDP Foundation 2023 Annual Report! Dive into our remarkable
journey throughout 2023, where our passion to improve the healthcare ecosystem drives us to fund projects
proving the value of NCPDP standards and leading to better outcomes for the common good of all. Dive into
the full report here to gain valuable insights into our year of progress. Thank you for being part of our
journey! Read More.
We are pleased to share the findings of the Quandary Peak & MedStar
Health Grant Researching RxChange Request & Response Messages
NCPDP’s SCRIPT Standard includes the RxChange Request and Response messages as distinct transactions to
provide bi-directional communication between the prescriber and pharmacist. This research study aimed to
identify workflow gaps to inform the creation of best practice recommendations for use of RxChange in
bi-directional communications. The study found that RxChange transaction messages are promising to reduce
administrative burden on both pharmacists and prescribers and has provided insight to NCPDP’s WG11,
ePrescribing & Related Transactions and RxChange TG for future NCPDP guidance. This grant supported two
of the NCPDP Foundation’s pillars: Expanding the Role & Value of the Pharmacist and Enhancing Patient
Safety.
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NCPDP Foundation Opens Its Call for Grant Proposals, Due April 30
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced its call for grant proposals. The Foundation, which has awarded nearly
1.2 million in grants in recent years, seeks to fund projects that demonstrate the value of existing or new NCPDP
Standards in supporting NCPDP Foundation strategic Initiatives: Expanding the Role and Value of the Pharmacist;
Expanding Patient Access to Care; Enhancing Patient Safety; and Empowering Coordination of Care and Innovation. Areas
of Interest include health equity, pharmacogenomics, value-based arrangements, digital therapeutics,
pharmacist-supported clinical services, and more. Proposals must meet the grant proposal requirements and be submitted
electronically by 5:00 p.m. MST on April 30, 2024, to be considered for the current grant funding cycle.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $150,000 Grant to RxLive to Automate Tracking of Physician
Adoption of Pharmacists’ Clinical Recommendations
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees has awarded a $150,000 grant to RxLive, a provider of population health pharmacy
solutions, to automate, track and quantify providers’ response to pharmacists’ clinical recommendations to measure the
value of pharmacist-led interventions. The project will use NCPDP standards to automate the process of capturing providers’
acceptance of pharmacist recommendations to show the impact and value that pharmacist-led clinical interventions can have
on patient care. It will aim to establish bidirectional communication for sharing data among the patient care team to
coordinate care and can be used to demonstrate and document progress and performance measures for value-based arrangements.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces $83,000 Grant to RxEOB.Com, LLC, Marking the Foundation’s First
Grant Supporting Consumer Access to Real-time Data Using NCPDP Standards
The grant will be used to fund an innovative project that will use NCPDP’s real-time standards to make it easy and convenient
for consumers to view medication options, alternatives and cost information, as well as payment assistance options and the
ability to select their preferred medication and pharmacy before a prescription is filled. This is the NCPDP Foundation’s
first grant funding a project that uses the same NCPDP industry standards available to prescribers, pharmacists, and other
healthcare industry participants, to bring consumers transparency and choice on prescription medications. The new,
consumer-facing use of NCPDP’s industry standards can help improve medication adherence and outcomes, patient safety, and
enhance efficiencies to improve the healthcare experience for patients, pharmacists, and prescribers.
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Recent Grants Making a Difference! We are pleased to share the findings of two grants have
now been published!
Read about Phase 1 of the Foundation’s Grant to STChealth for the Pilot Launch of NCPDP’s National Facilitator Model to
Strengthen Pandemic and Epidemic Preparedness & Response and Support Public Health Surveillance.
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Learn about the NCPDP Foundation’s Grant to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health for RxFill:
An Innovative Approach to Support Medication Adherence.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $79,000 Grant to Digital Therapeutics Alliance to Address Key
Barrier for Patient Access to Clinically Validated Digital Therapeutic Products
Digital Therapeutics Alliance will research current obstacles or barriers to health plan coverage of DTx therapies and
develop standardized pharmacy and medical benefit workflows to show how DTx products can be integrated into benefit designs.
The grant supports the NCPDP Foundation’s strategic initiative to Expand Patient Access to Care in alignment with NCPDP’s
strategic goal to explore how standards can support a pharmacist’s role in digital therapeutics. Findings from the research
project will also include recommendations for enhancements to existing NCPDP standards or a new NCPDP standard to support
DTx products.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces its Call for Grant Proposals, Due July 31, 2023
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced its call for grant proposals that demonstrate the value of NCPDP
standards in supporting patient safety, access to care and the expanded role of pharmacists. Grant proposals
must meet the grant proposal requirements and be submitted electronically by July 31, 2023, to be considered for
the current grant funding cycle. Areas of interest include: Value of Specialty Medication Enrollment Standard;
Pharmacy Services Billing Transaction; Other NCPDP Standards That Support Value-based Arrangements, Precision
Medicine, Social Determinants of Health, Digital Therapeutics or the NCPDP National Facilitator Model.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $102,300 Research Grant to University of Minnesota College of
Pharmacy to Evaluate the NCPDP/HL7 Specialty Medication Enrollment Standard
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced it has awarded a $102,300 research grant to the University of Minnesota
College of Pharmacy to evaluate the quality of data obtained from EHRs using the NCPDP/HL7 Specialty Medication Enrollment
Standard. The Standard provides for the exchange of patient demographic data, as well as coverage, prescription, and
clinical data for pharmacy dispensing of specialty medications. It also facilitates enrollment of patients in programs
offered by third parties such as hub vendors and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The research project aims to evaluate the
frequency at which information received by specialty pharmacy from EHRs is populated; evaluate the quality of information
received by specialty pharmacy from EHRs using a comprehensive evidence-based data quality framework; and evaluate the
clinical usefulness of information received by specialty pharmacy.
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Foundation Funded Pilot Project Announced: NCPDP Announces Pilot Launch of its National Facilitator Model to Strengthen Pandemic and
Epidemic Preparedness & Response and Support Public Health Surveillance
Funding for the pilot project is provided by an NCPDP Foundation grant of $150,000 awarded to STChealth. NCPDP announced the
pilot launch of its National Facilitator Model which can be used to provide real-time information on prescription, testing,
immunization, and related data to pharmacies, prescribers and government agencies to aid in pandemic and epidemic response,
proactive intervention and public health surveillance.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $295,000 in Grants to Enhance Patient Safety, Expand Patient Access to Care, & Expand the Role & Value of Pharmacists
Three grants were awarded in the NCPDP Foundation’s first grant cycle of 2022. Research projects will explore the value and
untapped potential of the RxFill or RxChange transactions in the NCPDP SCRIPT Standard. The grants support the NCPDP
Foundation’s strategic initiatives to Enhance Patient Safety, Expand Patient Access to Care, and Expand the Role and Value
of the Pharmacist.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards Grant to University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy to Identify Barriers to Using Indication/Diagnosis Fields in NCPDP Standards
Research Project Will Explore Barriers to the Use of Clinical Indication or Diagnosis – Underutilized Fields in NCPDP’s SCRIPT and Telecommunication Standards – Which Can Aid Pharmacists in DUR, Reduce Prescribing Errors, Improve Medication Counseling, and Speed Patient Access to Medications and Adherence.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces its Second 2022 Call for Grant Proposals
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced its second 2022 call for grant proposals that demonstrate the value of NCPDP standards in supporting patient
safety, access to care and the expanded role of pharmacists. Grant proposals must meet the grant proposal requirements and be submitted electronically by
August 18, 2022, to be considered for the current grant funding cycle.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $157,433 Grant to Xact Laboratories to Integrate Pharmacogenomic Data into PBM Systems and Help Inform Pharmacists’ Clinical Decision-Making via NCPDP Standards
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees has awarded a $157,433 grant to Xact Laboratories to integrate pharmacogenomic (PGx)
data into Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) systems and/or Pharmacy Benefit Administrator modules to share clinical alerts
with pharmacists using NCPDP Standards.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces GoodRx as its Access to Care Founders Gift Donor to Advance Research Priorities
The NCPDP Foundation is pleased to have named GoodRx as its Patient Access to Care Founders Gift Donor. Frannie McGowan, Chief Executive Officer of Scriptcycle,
LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of GoodRx), will serve as the Patient Access to Care Chair for the Foundation’s Newly Established National Advisory Council (NAC). GoodRx’s donation
of $100,000 and Frannie’s support as Chair will support future research projects to help enhance patient access to quality health care.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces Surescripts as its Role & Value of Pharmacists Founders
Gift Donor to Advance Research Priorities
The NCPDP Foundation today announced Surescripts as its Role & Value of Pharmacist Founders Gift Donor. Surescripts’ donation
of $100,000 will support future research projects over the next two years that demonstrate and measure one or more existing
or future NCPDP standards that align with the Foundation’s strategic initiative to Expand the Role and Value of the
Pharmacist. Surescripts’ Chief Marketing Officer, Melanie Marcus, will serve as the NCPDP Foundation’s National Advisory
Council (NAC) Chair for Role and Value of the Pharmacist with support from senior pharmacists and pharmacy experts at
Surescripts, NCPA and NACDS.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces FDB as its Inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor to
Advance Research Priorities
The NCPDP Foundation today announced FDB (First Databank, Inc.) as its inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor.
FDB’s donation of $100,000 will support future research projects over the next two years that demonstrate and measure one
or more existing or future NCPDP standards that align with the Foundation’s strategic initiative to enhance patient safety.
FDB President Robert C. (“Bob”) Katter will serve as the NCPDP Foundation’s National Advisory Council (NAC) Chair for
Patient Safety.
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