Montana’s Prescription Drug Registry

I highly recommend that you pre-register at home, or on a work computer before your shift, so when you want to log on and access the PDR for patient data you won't have to go through the multi-step process. It only needs to happen once, but it does take a few minutes, which you may not feel you have to spend if you are in a hurry.

To register you will need a State of Montana ePass account, which you should have already set up in order to renew your license on-line. You can either use your username and password from your license renewal, or you can set up a separate, new ePass account (you can have as many as you want). The registration process also requires that you watch a short on-line educational overview of the Program, and take a brief "post-test".

You will not be assessed the $15 annual fee at this time, nor when you renew your license. It will be assessed separately sometime after the first of the year, 2013.

I have been using the program now for a couple weeks, and it has been working well. Once the account is set up, you can access the information you want on any given patient in a minute, or so. I was easily able to create a shortcut and an icon, which I put on my desktop, and that speeds up the log-on.

I believe the letter you will receive will give you a way to contact the staff at the Board of Pharmacy if you are having any glitches. You can also feel free to contact me via e-mail if you are having any problems and I will do my best to help. You can also contact me with any feedback on the PDR. I can forward your ideas to the Board of Pharmacy and help solve any problems or answer any questions.

ENJOY!!

Bill Gallea

 

Montana ACEP Contacts

President: William S. Gallea, MD, FACEP

Treasurer: James Upchurch, MD, FACEP

State Leader, Legislative Network: Sarah Morgan-Edwards, MD

 

Read about Montana's State Legislature and find and contact your elected representatives at Montana State Legislature. 

 

Click here to link to ACEP's health care reform page and learn about how to contact Congress.

 

 

 

 

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ACEP has launched a campaign to educate policymakers, the news media and the public about the value of emergency medicine and that emergency care constitutes less than 2% of all health care spending. To hear some talk about rising health care costs, you'd think it was more like 50%! Because of the cost-cutting environment in Washington and in state legislatures, this campaign is designed to promote the high value of emergency care. The campaign launched with a Health Writers' Conference in New York, featuring ACEP members from Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Texas, Oregon and Washington, D.C., highlighting different aspects of emergency care.

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