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E-Prescribing Project 
The New Mexico Prescription Improvement Coalition (NMPIC) is charged with encouraging e-prescribing to address patient safety and rising prescription costs, which in turn provides quality, cost effective health care to patients.
The Health Information and Technology (HIT) Advisory Board was formed to oversee day-to-day management and strategic planning of a statewide e-prescribing project, to include recruitment, office readiness assessment, vendor activities, workflow redesign, technical assistance to participating physicians, and pharmacy connectivity to SureScripts.
 HIT Advisory Board Members:
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Larry Georgopoulos, PharmD, University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy (designated representative)
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Bill Harvey, RPh, New Mexico Board of Pharmacy
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Doug Lohkamp, RPh, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico (Chair)
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Larry Loring, RPh, New Mexico Board of Pharmacy
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Thomas Murvin, Lovelace Health Plan (Vice Chair)
- Galina Priloutskaya, PhD, MBA, CHCA, NMMRA
- Shawn Quinn, OptumHealth
- Christopher Stanley, MD, United Healthcare
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Eugene Sun, MD, Molina Healthcare of New Mexico
- Dale Tinker, New Mexico Pharmacists Association
Partners:
- Kristi Mouser, Dr. First
- Karen Child, RxNT
- Riba Eshanzada, OA Systems
NMPIC’s e-prescribing project promotes the adoption of e-prescribing to enhance medication management and patient safety in participating locations. A statewide, physician-centric, multi-payor, self-sustaining, e-prescribing model is being used. To assure adoption, all major health plans are participating. Health plans’ formularies will be loaded into the e-prescribing applications for ease of physician access. Implementation costs of this project are being partially funded by participating health plans, based on New Mexico member enrollment for each plan.
Its first phase, which has involved more than 100 physicians practicing in 19 communities throughout the state, has shown success both in numbers of active e-prescribers and data reporting. Participating sites are actively using their e-prescribing solutions to track and report data on patient eligibility, medication history, drug utilization, drug-to-drug interactions, prevented/reversed prescriptions as a result of drug alerts, and dispensing errors detected by the e-prescribing solutions. Phase 1 began in November 2008 and will run through 2011. Sponsoring organizations are Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, Lovelace Health Plan, Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, the New Mexico Human Services Department Medical Assistance Division (Medicaid), Presbyterian Health Plan, and United HealthCare Insurance Company. DrFirst, RxNT and OA Systems are participating vendors. These vendors are working with the physician participants to implement their e-prescribing software and receive the necessary training.
Based on the success of phase 1, phase 2 was launched July 1. NMPIC will reimburse eligible participating physicians up to $1,000 for qualified expenditures in e-prescribing adoption. At at least 90 more providers will be accepted until funds are exhausted. To join phase 2, contact Galina Priloutskaya.
NMPIC hosted demonstrations of e-prescribing solutions for phase 1, and an additional demonstration is planned for phase 2 for later in 2009 in Las Cruces. As of July 2009, more than 95 physicians have signed agreements with NMPIC to participate; of these, 55 have implemented their e-prescribing solutions and 40 are in the process of making a vendor selection.
E-Prescribing Pilot Support Materials include a physician buyer guide, vendor comparison information, participation checklist, participation agreement, the pilot financial model, and an overview of Medicare's e-prescribing incentive initiative.
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