HEB pharmacist Doug Read was appointed to serve a three year term on the newly created Prescription Monitoring Program Advisory Committee charged with making recommendations to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy regarding operational improvements to the Prescription Monitoring Program, resolutions to identified data concerns, methods to improve data accuracy, integrity and security, and ways to reduce technical difficulties, as well as the addition of any new data sets or services to the information provided or the access to that information.
Also in Texas… House Speaker Dennis Bonnen (R) issued a press release announcing the creation of an 11-member House Select Committee on Statewide Healthcare Costs. The Speaker will serve as Chair. NACDS will closely monitor and engage in the Committee’s activities during the interim.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.