Long-Time Leader and Advocate Shelly Spiro Is Recognized as the
2024 NCPDP Champion
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 8, 2024
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today at its Annual Technology & Business
Conference, NCPDP announced its 2024 Champion Award recipient,
Shelly Spiro, Executive Director at
Pharmacy HIT Collaborative and President and CEO of Spiro
Consulting. NCPDP's Champion Award recognizes outstanding
accomplishments or work to improve patient care by actively
supporting NCPDP members and its initiatives.
NCPDP President & CEO Lee Ann
Stember stated, "We are pleased to present this award to
Shelly, a long-time participant of NCPDP, Work Group Co-Chair and
Leader of multiple Task Groups. She has been a staunch advocate of
pharmacy – and specifically NCPDP – in other standards
organizations and in government and regulatory initiatives on
interoperability."
As Executive Director of the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative, Shelly
led industry initiatives on Pharmacy Interoperability for 19 years,
helping to support adoption of NCPDP standards to support patient
care and business activities. Shelly was also instrumental in
supporting awareness of NCPDP's standards and its subject matter
expertise with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
(ONC) and other government agencies, as well as broader healthcare
industry participants and consumers.
Spiro recently co-led the Pharmacy Interoperability and Emerging
Therapeutics Task Force 2023 for the ONC's HITAC (Health
Information Technology Advisory Committee). The charge of the Task
Force was to identify recommendations to support interoperability
between pharmacy constituents, and the exchange of information
necessary for medication management, patient safety, and consumer
engagement. Spiro was instrumental in navigating patient advocate,
public health representatives, physicians, pharmacies and
pharmacists, systems vendors and data intermediaries' presentations
and discussions that raised regulatory awareness about
interoperability challenges and available data standards solutions.
Throughout the process, Spiro educated and informed broader
healthcare industry participants and consumers about the pharmacy
industry and solutions that have been developed by NCPDP to help
address current industry interests and needs.
The Pharmacy Interoperability and Emerging Therapeutics Task
Force's technical and policy recommendations were accepted by the
HITAC unanimously on November 9,
2023. The final recommendations included reference to many
of NCPDP's strategic initiatives, citation of existing NCPDP
standards, recognition of the need for equal funding of data
standards organizations and of NCPDP as a necessary entity to
engage with in future discussions.
Click here to listen to Spiro's acceptance remarks.
NCPDP's Annual Conference continues today with Keynoter Mark
Schulman, more educational programming and networking opportunities
at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona. For real-time updates
during the conference, follow @NCPDP on X, NCPDP on LinkedIn, or
join the discussion using the hashtag: #NCPDP24.
About NCPDP
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) is a
not-for-profit American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) consisting of more than 1,500
members representing entities including, but not limited to, claims
processors, data management and analysis vendors, federal and state
government agencies, insurers, intermediaries, pharmaceutical
manufacturers, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, professional
services organizations, software and system vendors and other
parties interested in electronic standardization within the
pharmacy services sector of the healthcare industry. NCPDP provides
a forum wherein our diverse membership can develop business
solutions, including ANSI-accredited standards and guidance for
promoting information exchanges related to medications, supplies
and services within the healthcare system.
NCPDP has been named in federal legislation, including HIPAA,
MMA, and HITECH. NCPDP members have created standards such as the
Telecommunication Standard and Batch Standard, the SCRIPT Standard
for ePrescribing, the Manufacturers Rebate Standard and more to
improve communication within the pharmacy industry. Our data
products include dataQ®, a robust database of information on more
than 80,000 pharmacies, resQ™, an industry pharmacy credentialing
resource, and HCIdea®, an innovative prescriber database that
provides continually updated information on more than 2.5 million
prescribers. NCPDP's RxReconn® is a legislative tracking product
for real-time monitoring of pharmacy-related state and national
legislative and regulatory activity. For more information about
NCPDP Standards, Data Services, Products, Educational Programs and
Work Group meetings, go online at http://www.ncpdp.org or call
480.477.1000.
Media Contact
Janet Cabibbo, NCPDP,
480-477-1000 x104, jcabibbo@ncpdp.org, www.NCPDP.org
Maggie Bruce, NCPDP, 480-477-1000
x144, mbruce@ncpdp.org, www.NCPDP.org
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