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| Throughout the military health care system, the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service links patient information among more than 500 pharmacies at military treatment facilities worldwide, the National Mail Order Program, and more than 40,000 civilian retail pharmacies that are part of the Tricare managed care network nationwide. Regardless of location, when using the PDTS, if a beneficiary has a prescription filled at a military medical facility, then at a network retail pharmacy, and later through the NMOP, providers and pharmacists at authorized Tricare sites worldwide will have access to the same historical patient prescription information. Thus PDTS allows pharmacists to identify duplicate or contraindicated therapies where a patient may need extra counseling to ensure there are no adverse reactions. PDTS also can alert health care providers to possible cases of prescription abuse. | |
