MINNESOTA
JULY 2017
PHYSICIAN
THE INDEPENDENT MEDICAL BUSINESS JOURNAL
Volume XXXI, No. 4
Minnesota Prescription Monitoring Program
The CARES Model
Important updates responding to an epidemic BY BARBARA A. CARTER
I The CARES Model A way to engage your patients BY ARCHELLE GEORGIOU, MD
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ixty-two percent of Americans say they want to deliberate with their physician about their treatment options. And, to help make the right choices, consumers have been armed with an array of health information sites, symptom checkers, cost calculators, and provider quality scores and report cards. Unfortunately, the majority of patients simply abdicate decision-making to their doctor. Only 15 percent of consumers actively use health care apps and only 20 percent of patients raise the topic of treatment alternatives with their doctor. The CARES Model to page 104
n a recent survey conducted by the American Medical Association, in which 44 of the 49 state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP/PMP) responded there was a 180 percent increase, between 2014 and 2016, in the number of physicians’ and other health care professionals that had registered for an account with a PDMP/ PMP. During that same time there was also a 121 percent increase in the number of times physicians and other health care professionals used a state’s PDMP/PMP. In 2016 alone, there were more than 136.1 million queries of those 44 state’s databases. Minnesota Prescription Monitoring Program to page 124