South Dakota News: Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Update

October 31, 2011 5:08 pm Topics: Prescription monitoring program

Originally published in the October 2011 South Dakota Board of Pharmacy Newsletter

The Board of Pharmacy has selected Health Information Designs (HID) as the vendor for data collection, data storage, and data reporting for the South Dakota Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (SDPDMP). HID provides this service to 13 other states including North Dakota and Minnesota. All pharmacies recently received information from HID with instructions to access the Dispenser’s Implementation Guide for the SDPDMP. The guide serves as a step-by-step implementation and training guide to prepare pharmacies for mandatory data submission to the program.

Mandatory weekly reporting will begin by December 12, 2011. Retroactive reporting from July 1, 2011, must be submitted by February 15, 2012. Board staff will be able to generate patient profiles by the end of January. The Board anticipates that online access for data query by pharmacists and prescribers will be available by the end of February.

General information about the PDMP and specific information for prescribers and pharmacists can be found on the Web site. Please call or e-mail the Board of Pharmacy office with your questions about this new program.