NCPDP and SureScripts Team Up to Provide Greater Access to SureScripts e-Prescriber Information
May 1, 2008 - Scottsdale, AZ – The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and SureScripts, Inc. have agreed to enhance the NCPDP HCIdea™ prescriber database with practice location specific SureScripts Prescriber Identifier (SPI) numbers and their associated service levels.
"As e-prescribing adoption continues to increase, NCPDP has been contacted by a number of organizations requesting SureScripts information be included on the HCIdea™ relational database as well as the HCIdea™Look Up web based prescriber tool," commented Lee Ann Stember, President of NCPDP. "Our arrangement with SureScripts will satisfy subscriber needs and as e-prescribing adoption by prescribers continues to grow, our arrangement with SureScripts for distribution of updated prescriber information will grow along with industry needs."
SureScripts Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer David Yakimischak said, "SureScripts is very pleased that our SPI numbers will be included in the HCIdea file. NCPDP created the HCIdea™ database products with input by NCPDP members, for the members. With this enhancement, we anticipate improved provider matching accuracy, better pharmacy workflow, and broader dissemination of both the HCIdea™ database, and SPI routing numbers in support of e-prescribing."
About SureScripts
Founded by the pharmacy industry in 2001, SureScripts® operates the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™, which facilitates the secure electronic transmission of prescription information between physicians and pharmacists and provides access to lifesaving information about patients during emergencies or routine care. Working collaboratively with health plans, health systems, technology vendors and health policy leaders, SureScripts is committed to improving the safety, efficiency, and quality of the prescribing process. More information about SureScripts is available at www.surescripts.com.
About NCPDP
Founded in 1977, the National Council of Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) is an ANSI-accredited non-profit organization that creates and promotes consensus-driven standards for the transfer of data from and to the pharmacy services sector of the healthcare industry. A long-time and trusted player in the industry, NCPDP has been named in ground-breaking federal legislation, including HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and the MMA (Medicare Modernization Act). NCPDP members have created standards such as the Telecommunication Standard and Batch Standard, the SCRIPT Standard for e-Prescribing, the Manufacturers Rebate Standard and more to improve communication within the pharmacy industry.
Data services include a subscriber database of pharmacy information used to provide industry with identifiers and other information for processing of prescription drug claims , and HCIdea™, a prescriber database of physician and other prescriber information including practice locations, identifiers such as NPI , UPIN, DEA and State License numbers and phone numbers. For more information about NCPDP standards development, educational programs, work group meetings and data services, please visit NCPDP.org or call (480) 477-1000.
For more information on how HCIdea™ can help you at an affordable cost, please contact Robin Ebert at 480-477-1000, ext 118.
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