2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 56. Poor Persons
§56-1011.4. Database of clinical utilization information - Needs analysis - Electronic prescribing pilot program.

A. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall conduct a needs analysis to design a database of clinical utilization information or electronic medical records for Medicaid providers. This system shall be web-based and allow providers to review on a real-time basis the utilization of Medicaid services including, but not limited to, office visits, inpatient and outpatient hospitalizations, laboratory and pathology services, radiological and other imaging services, dental care, and patterns of dispensing prescription drugs in order to coordinate care and identify potential fraud and abuse. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall evaluate and report findings to the Governor and the Legislature by January 1, 2008.

B. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall design and implement an electronic prescribing pilot program. The pilot program may include, but is not limited to, providing hardware, software, and connectivity for a limited number of prescribers. The prescribers who participate may be given vouchers for hardware, software, and connectivity, or the Oklahoma Health Care Authority may use direct vendor contracts. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall:

1. Within the messaging capabilities of the electronic prescribing system alert prescribers when patients are prescribed multiple drugs that may be duplicative, contraindicated, or have other potential problems related either to other medications or health status of the patient;

2. Track spending trends for prescription drugs and deviation from best-practice guidelines and notify prescribers who consistently fall outside those guidelines, comparing those prescribers who are using the electronic prescribing system to those who are not in order to determine whether the pilot program should be expanded; and

3. In conjunction with disease management programs or other targeted interventions, alert prescribers to patients who fail to refill ongoing or maintenance medication prescriptions in a timely fashion.

C. A report of this pilot program shall be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature no later than eighteen (18) months after the start of the program.

Added by Laws 2006, c. 315, § 4, emerg. eff. June 9, 2006.