State's PDMP Looks Much Different Than in Early Days

In the early days of Michigan’s prescription drug-monitoring program in the early 2000s, medical providers seeking a patient’s prescription history would fax a request to a state office, and then wait for a staff member to run the query and return the results. By 2005, requests could be submitted online, but providers still had to wait about 48 hours to get the results by fax. And the report could resemble a telephone book listing, with an often long list of prescriptions that made it hard to discern any patterns, according to speakers during a webinar on Thursday. But the M...