Important-Registering for Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Posted almost 8 years ago by Vicky Stone-Gale
As we move forward into putting the Barbara Lumpkin Controlled Substance Bill into effect in January 2017, it is recommended that you sign up for EFORCSE (Electronic Florida Online Reporting of Controlled Substances Evaluation). This is the web-based program that facilitates the collection, storage, maintenance, and analysis of controlled substance dispensing data. EFORSCE collects and stores dispensing data for controlled substances in schedules II, III, and IV. To date, only 1900 out of 20,944 total Florida licensed ARNPs are currently registered in EFORCSE. This represents only 9.1% of our profession that are actually using this valuable reporting system. I encourage you to register in the system now and familiarize yourself with it. Even though it is not required, and you do not have a DEA number yet and the physician does, you can still use this on all patients that come into your practice requesting medication refills on controlled substances. When you begin prescribing these medications, you will want to access it for your patients on a regular basis. It would be great to have all of our ARNP licensees registered on the site.
To enroll in EFORCSE go to:
http://www.hidesigns.com/flpdmp/practitionerpharmacist/