N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.70

History

(2005-276, s. 10.36(a).)

Improving the Security and Functionality Capabilities of the Controlled Substances Reporting System. - Session Laws 2017-57, s. 11A.6(a)-(d), provides: "(a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to improve the security and functionality capabilities of the Controlled Substances Reporting System (CSRS) in order to provide additional value to practitioners and dispensers within their current clinical workflows. To that end, of the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Central Management and Support, the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) in recurring funds for the CSRS for each fiscal year of the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium shall be used to pay for contractual hours to develop and implement software via existing public-private partnerships with the Government Data and Analytics Center (GDAC) for the performance of advanced analytics within the CSRS. These hours shall be used to achieve the purposes specified in G.S. 90-113.71 and, more specifically, to accomplish at least all of the following:

"(1) To enhance and automate reports authorized under G.S. 90-113.74.

"(2) To enhance the Department's ability to provide data to persons or entities authorized to receive information under G.S. 90-113.74. In improving the CSRS as specified in this subdivision, the Department shall utilize subject matter expertise and technology available through existing GDAC public-private partnerships. Upon development and implementation of the advanced analytics software for the CSRS, the Division of Central Management and Support shall coordinate with the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, the Division of Public Health, and any other appropriate division within the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that advanced analytics are developed and utilized in a manner that achieves the purposes specified in G.S. 90-113.71.

"(3) To aggregate relevant data sources, including those available through the GDAC.

"(4) To enhance the Department's ability to generate and deploy advanced analytics in order to improve opioid prescribing practices, identify unusual prescribing patterns, and detect behavior indicative of misuse, addiction, or criminal activity.

"(b) By December 1, 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services shall execute any contractual agreements and interagency data sharing agreements necessary to complete the improvements to the CSRS described in subdivisions (1) through (4) of subsection (a) of this section.

"(c) To the extent allowable under federal and State laws and regulations, the Department of Information Technology shall coordinate with the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Central Management and Support and Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, to develop an interface between the CSRS and the Health Information Exchange (HIE) Network and leverage the interfaces already developed between the HIE Network and health care entities as a method of providing CSRS data, reports, and analytic outputs to health care practitioners and dispensers.

"(d) This section is effective when this act becomes law [June 28, 2017]."