NCPDP Foundation Funds $110,000 Research Grant to Assess Current Pharmacy Technology Landscape
With a $110,000 NCPDP Foundation grant, Point-of-Care Partners will conduct a study that comprehensively assesses the current pharmacy
technology landscape. Its goal is to provide guidance to industry stakeholders on actionable steps to ensure pharmacists have the technology
they need to support patient care and optimal outcomes. The study will identify how existing, improved, or new NCPDP standards support
pharmacy interoperability and clinical data exchange. Read More.
Grant Results | DTx Integration & Workflow Completed by the Digital Therapeutic Alliance
This research study aimed to determine how reimbursement pathways impact work streams and identify where standardization
exists and where there are opportunities for new standards. The study identified two major payment pathways within DTx
prescriptions: Medical Benefit and Pharmacy Benefit and was able to identify major pain points along the workflow and
multiple NCPDP Standards in use including Telecom, SCRIPT, F&B, and RTPB. This grant supported one of the NCPDP
Foundation’s pillars: Increasing Patient Access to Care. Read More.
NCPDP Foundation Names CoverMyMeds as Fourth Founder’s Gift Donor
The NCPDP Foundation announced today a new partnership with CoverMyMeds to support the Foundation’s recently established
fourth strategic initiative, which focuses on empowering Coordination of Care and Innovation. This initiative aims to fill
existing gaps in the pharmacy industry by empowering a more interoperable approach to patient care and promote better
outcomes in the healthcare ecosystem. Read More.
New Board Members Welcomed by NCPDP Foundation
The NCPDP Foundation honored three outgoing members of the Board of Trustees at the Annual Technology & Business
Conference: Richard Brook, Mike Bukach, and Greg Pulido. Three new Board members have stepped into leadership
roles: Robert P. Nickell, Tara Dragert, and Tony Schueth.
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NCPDP Foundation’s Inaugural Pulido Award Honors Namesake’s Legacy of Pharmacy Innovation
During a special presentation at NCPDP’s Annual Technology & Business Conference, the NCPDP Foundation honored
Charles Pulido and STChealth, represented by Strategic Advisor Tom Groom, with the first-ever Charles Pulido,
R.Ph. Excellence Award. The yearly award will recognize the Foundation grant completed in the past year that most
fully optimized the vision and purpose of the NCPDP Foundation. Read More.
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 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 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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