SCOTTSDALE, AZ — (Marketwired) — 07/31/13 — The newly redesigned (NCPDP) makes it easy to access the latest information, standards and resources on healthcare-s hottest topics, from our recent comments at an FDA Public Meeting on to improve patient safety, to curbing , implementing industry standard transactions for , complying with ePrescribing requirements in Meaningful Use (MU), and more.

“NCPDP has made tremendous progress in standards development and addressing patient safety issues over the past 36 years,” explained . “The new website was designed to enhance the user experience, make it easier to find information, tap into our content rich resources, and encourage all healthcare stakeholders to join NCPDP and take an active role in shaping the foundational interoperability standards, and developing solutions to patient safety and communication issues that will bring higher quality, safer, lower cost healthcare.”

Features of NCPDP-s new website include:

Up-to-date NCPDP and industry news accessible on the home page;

Hot topic issues on the home page;

Dynamic, database driven content;

Reorganized resources section featuring menus that categorize content and expand for access to content as needed without excessive scrolling;

Enhanced functionality for members; and

One click access to NCPDP database and legislative tracking products.

For a screenshot of the new website: . Over the next 12 months, NCPDP will continue to expand functionality and multimedia resources on the website.

Founded in 1977, NCPDP is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited, Standards Development Organization with over 1,600 members representing virtually every sector of the pharmacy services industry. Our diverse membership provides leadership and healthcare business solutions through education and standards, created using the consensus building process. NCPDP has been named in federal legislation, including HIPAA, MMA, and HITECH. 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. Our data products include dataQ®, a robust database of information on more than 76,000 pharmacies, and HCIdea®, a database of continually updated information on more than 2.3 million prescribers. NCPDP-s RxReconn® is a legislative tracking product for real-time monitoring of pharmacy-related state and national legislative and regulatory activity. For more information about NCPDP Standards, Data Services, Products, Educational Programs and Work Group meetings, go online at or call (480) 477-1000.

Janet Cabibbo
Amendola Communications for NCPDP
480-664-8412 ext. 15

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