This week on NCPDPunscripted, we sit down with Jeff Deitch, CEO of InfoWerks Data Services, and Kelee Petzelt, VP of Sales at Synerio. They discuss NCPDP’s work with HL7 on the CodeX REMS use case, progress on streamlining patient access to REMS drugs, and the new Collabor8 event sponsored by PTI.

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In this episode, Joel White, President & CEO at Horizon Government Affairs, discusses key healthcare policy changes in the first 100 days of the new administration, including the MAHA initiative, HHS restructuring, and their potential impact on pharmacies and NCPDP. He also explores the growing role of pharmacists in chronic care and the significance of the ECAPS Act in expanding access and reimbursement.

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In this episode of NCPDPunscripted, we’re sitting down with Christian Tadrus, RPh, PharmD, FASCP, AE-C, NSC and Mindy Smith, RPh, MHA, to talk about leadership, progress, and what’s next for NCPDP. Christian will share some of his proudest moments as Board Chair, including big steps forward for pharmacists and industry collaboration. Then Mindy will give us a look at her vision as she takes the gavel, with a focus on the new 3-year strategic plan and how NCPDP is keeping innovation, interoperability, and smart governance at the forefront. It’s a relaxed but powerful conversation about where we’ve been and where we’re headed.

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Patient record matching and accurate identification of patients across the healthcare ecosystem is a top-of-mind challenge in healthcare. Listen as John Hill, NCPDP’s Chief Operating Officer, and Pooja Babbrah, NCPDP Executive Vice President, Strategy and Industry Alignment, discuss the heightened need for accurately matching patient records as healthcare seeks to increase interoperability, care coordination, and the inclusion of pharmacists in the patient care team.

Get an update from John and Pooja on the Patient Experience Identifier ™ Solution (PEI) that leverages NCPDP Standards and Experian Health’s expansive consumer demographics, best in class matching methodologies, and now also AI and machine learning to accurately match patient records and assign a unique, provider-neutral identifier to each patient. A recent pilot provided proof that this PEI Solution improves the ability to identify a patient across multiple data sets in disparate systems across multiple states. There will likely be additional pilots as NCPDP increases its efforts to advance the PEI solution to improve patient safety and efficient patient management and care.

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Listen to learn about results from Phase 1 of NCPDP's National Facilitator Model Demonstration Project, how it addresses data silos, and reactions to the findings. In this podcast episode, NCPDP’s President & CEO Lee Ann Stember talks with three special guests: J.W. Hill, MBAHCM, CNED, NCPDP’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the NCPDP Foundation; Tom Groom of STChealth, our technical partner; and Julie Suko, FDB (First Databank, Inc.), an NCPDP Elite Partner and the NCPDP Foundation’s Inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor. Plus, hear what’s ahead in Phase 2 of the Demonstration Project.

Funding for the pilot project is provided by an NCPDP Foundation grant of $150,000 awarded to STChealth. The NCPDP Foundation grant is funded by the Lee Ann Stember Endowment; Founders Gift Donors FDB (First Databank, Inc.) and GoodRx; and its general fund. Both STChealth and Experian Health have provided in-kind support and reduced fees to support the pilot.

Resources:
NCPDP National Facilitator Model Phase 1 Report
Podcast Episode on National Facilitator Model

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NCPDP’s President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with Tom Groom, Chief Operating Officer of STChealth, NCPDP’s Technical Partner leading the pilot launch of NCPDP’s National Facilitator Model.

Learn about how the model is being deployed to demonstrate its use and value on a broader scale – to provide real-time, actionable data at the point of care to improve public health preparedness and response.

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In this in-depth episode, NCPDP's President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with Bob Katter, President of FDB (First Databank, Inc.), on a wide range of topics from strategic alignment on patient safety, innovation and supporting the expanded role of pharmacists, to lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, how to innovate using NCPDP standards and a look ahead at 2023 with precision medicine and pharmacogenomics. FDB is an NCPDP Elite Partner and is the NCPDP Foundation's Inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor.

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In this podcast episode, NCPDP’s President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with Todd Grover, President, CEO, and a co-founder of PharmacyFocus, an NCPDP Elite Partner. Listen to learn how and why PharmacyFocus made the leap from just a Technical Partner to an Elite Partner as well; how support for dataQ® and resQ™ is an investment back in the industry; and how the PharmacyFocus team leveraged their membership in NCPDP to propel their company growth.

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