Connecting to a prescription drug monitoring program

When using Ascend Academic ePrescribe, you can pull reports from your state's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). States maintain these databases, which list all of the prescriptions for controlled substances. In many states, providers are supposed to check the PDMP before writing a patient a prescription for a controlled substance.

Many states require providers to check the PDMP before writing a controlled substance prescription to their patients. You can do this is Ascend Academic with ePrescribe.

Ascend Academic ePrescribe can connect to the PDMP in the following states:

State	Connectivity	State	Connectivity
Alabama	Ready	Minnesota	Ready
Alaska	Ready	Mississippi	Ready
Arizona	Ready	Nevada	Ready
Arkansas	Ready	New Jersey	Ready
California	Requirements/Constraints	New Mexico	Ready
Colorado	Ready	North Carolina	Ready
Connecticut	Ready	North Dakota	Ready
DC	Ready	Ohio	Ready
Delaware	Ready	Oklahoma	Ready
Florida	Ready	Oregon	Ready
Georgia	Ready	Pennsylvania	Requirements/Constraints
Hawaii	Ready	Puerto Rico	Ready
Idaho	Ready	Rhode Island	Ready
Indiana	Ready	South Carolina	Ready
Iowa	Ready	South Dakota	Ready
Kansas	Ready	Tennessee	Requirements/Constraints
Kentucky	Requirements/Constraints	Texas	Ready
Louisiana	Ready	Virginia	Ready
Maine	Ready	West Virginia	Ready
Massachusetts	Requirements/Constraints	Wyoming	Ready
Michigan	Ready	?	?

To enable PDMP

To enable PDMP, you'll need to contact Ascend Academic Support with the following:

• A list of locations that need to be connected to PDMP

  Note: The support agent needs the location names because they need to retrieve its' clinic ID.

• A contact person's full name and email address

  Tip: If your organization has multiple locations, the contact person might be someone at a central office.

With the provided information, the support agent will create a DoseSpot ticket with a note that you want PDMP. Once a DoseSpot agent receives the email, they'll send an email to the contact person. The contact person will complete the registration process to Appriss, the company that manages the PDMP integration, with the DoseSpot agent.

After the registrtion is complete, you need to contact the Ascend agent again, so that they can speficy the applicable role in the ePrescribe administration console.

To view a patient's PDMP data

After the PDMP setup is complete, the patient's Narx scores display in Ascend Academic when you navigate to their Electronic Prescriptions page.

The Narx scores help gauge the patient's potential substance risks. Also, if a full report is available, you can clicktap View Report to view the report.