NCPDP − Raising the Standards

Listen to learn about results from Phase 1 of NCPDP's National Facilitator Model Demonstration Project, how it addresses data silos, and reactions to the findings. In this podcast episode, NCPDP’s President & CEO Lee Ann Stember talks with three special guests:  J.W. Hill, MBAHCM, CNED, NCPDP’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the NCPDP Foundation; Tom Groom of STChealth, our technical partner; and Julie Suko, FDB (First Databank, Inc.), an NCPDP Elite Partner and the NCPDP Foundation’s Inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor. Plus, hear what’s ahead in Phase 2 of the Demonstration Project.Funding for the pilot project is provided by an NCPDP Foundation grant of $150,000 awarded to STChealth. The NCPDP Foundation grant is funded by the Lee Ann Stember Endowment; Founders Gift Donors FDB (First Databank, Inc.) and GoodRx; and its general fund. Both STChealth and Experian Health have provided in-kind support and reduced fees to support the pilot.Resources:NCPDP National Facilitator Model Phase 1 ReportPodcast Episode on National Facilitator Model

NCPDP’s President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with Tom Groom, Chief Operating Officer of STChealth, NCPDP’s Technical Partner leading the pilot launch of NCPDP’s National Facilitator Model. Learn about how the model is being deployed to demonstrate its use and value on a broader scale – to provide real-time, actionable data at the point of care to improve public health preparedness and response.

In this in-depth episode, NCPDP's President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with Bob Katter, President of FDB (First Databank, Inc.), on a wide range of topics from strategic alignment on patient safety, innovation and supporting the expanded role of pharmacists, to lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, how to innovate using NCPDP standards and a look ahead at 2023 with precision medicine and pharmacogenomics. FDB is an NCPDP Elite Partner and is the NCPDP Foundation's Inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor.

In this podcast episode, NCPDP’s President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with Todd Grover, President, CEO, and a co-founder of PharmacyFocus, an NCPDP Elite Partner. Listen to learn how and why PharmacyFocus made the leap from just a Technical Partner to an Elite Partner as well; how support for dataQ® and resQ™ is an investment back in the industry; and how the PharmacyFocus team leveraged their membership in NCPDP to propel their company growth.

In this podcast episode, NCPDP’s President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with Mark Gingrich, Chief Information Officer of Surescripts. Mark discusses areas of shared strategic alignment between Surescripts & NCPDP, healthcare issues that Surescripts is currently addressing and an update on Surescripts’ National Progress Report. 

NCPDP President & CEO Lee Ann Stember speaks with David Holladay of CoverMyMeds for an inside look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated medication access challenges. He shared insights from the CoverMyMeds 2021 Medication Access Report and discusses the trends that we can expect to see in 2022.