Resources for Promoting Maine's Prescription Monitoring Program

Maine's Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) is a tool created to prevent and detect prescription drug misuse and diversion. PMP maintains a database of all transactions for controlled substances dispensed in the State of Maine. This database is available online to prescribers and dispensers. A free service of the Office of Substance Abuse (OSA) in the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, the PMP database is quickly becoming a standard tool for clinicians to provide better care to their patients throughout the state.

Basic Information

Overview Brochure – January 2008 (PDF)

Introductory PMP PowerPoint | Intro "PowerPoint" - PDF version

Quick Guides

These links are to one-page Word documents that are useful for recruitment and training of providers:

Data Requester Registration

Adding a Sub-account

Generating a Patient History Report

Registration and Usage Statistics

Many Healthy Maine Partnerships (HMPs) have chosen to promote registration among health care providers and use of the PMP as a health care tool. OSA has created a tracking tool to assist HMP staff members in tracking registration and usage in their service areas. For baseline data for your HMP local service area, please view the "Patient Reports by Requester Community, First Quarter 2009 with Description" report (PDF).

A few words of guidance for interpreting this report

This report is provided to indicate the level of use in the given HMP service area. It is not intended to be used for comparisons between HMP service areas. The intent of this report is to give HMP's a tool for tracking their own progress over time. HMP's vary widely by size, demographics, and number of health care professionals. Only some HMP's have chosen the optional objectives related to PMP.

Definitions

Registered Requesters: the total number of health care professionals registered as data requesters in the given HMP service area
Dispenser: pharmacist data requesters
Prescriber: Dentist, Medical Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwife, Osteopathic Dorctor, Physician Assistant, and Podiatrist data requesters
Active Requesters: the number of requesters in each category who actually requested patient history reports during the time period specified at the top of the report
# of Reports: the count of reports requested by the active users in the given category during the specified time period
Rx Count: the number of prescriptions that appeared on the reports in the previous column
Other-ME: for requesters who are not in towns covered by HMP service areas
Other-Non-ME: for requesters who live outside of Maine

(PDF version of the above guidance)

Major Reasons for Change-over to New Portal

Goold Health Systems (GHS) began hosting the online database interface on January 5, 2009. The new portal offers several new features, including automated password recovery (available 24/7), more up-to-date data, and several new features for data submitters. The new system, in effect, provides easier access to more accurate data than the old system.

Documentation of PMP Web Portal

Canges to the online PMP portal have left many long-time users of the old portal eager for “re-training.” The links below are documentation of the new PMP web portal.

ME PMP Data Requester Registration Manual (for potential users of the database, who have never registered before)

ME PMP Data Requester Manual (for users of the database)

IE 7 Settings (for those users attempting to run patient reports using Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 7)

More documenation can be found by following the "Documentation" link at www.maine.gov/pmp.

Any Questions?

If you have any questions regarding the PMP or prescription drug abuse generally, you may contact the Office of Substance Abuse at 207-287-2595 or osa.ircosa@maine.gov.

Further Information

Prescription Monitoring Program home page

Treatment Resources ("Find Help")

Information and Resource Center

External Links

http://www.maine.gov/pmp (for access to the web portal)

*Documents in PDF format require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them. Printouts of any of the documents linked on this page are also available upon request.

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