Sending a Notification of a Long-Term Care Patient’s Admission, Discharge and/or Transfer Status to the Servicing Pharmacy

Type	Standard / Implementation Specification	Standards Process Maturity	Implementation Maturity	Federally required	Cost	Test Tool Availability
Standard	NCPDP® Specialized Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 10.6	Final	Production	No	$	No
Standard	HL7® 2.5.1 (or later) ADT message	Final	Production	No	Free	No
Standard	NCPDP Specialized Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 2017071	Final	Production	No	$	No

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration	Applicable Security Patterns for Consideration
The “Census Message” transaction allows for long-term and post-acute care settings to notify the servicing pharmacy of a patient’s admission, discharge and/or transfer status. See NCPDP projects in the Interoperability Proving Ground.	Secure Communication – Create a secure channel for client-to- serve and server-to-server communication. Secure Message Router – Securely route and enforce policy on inbound and outbound messages without interruption of delivery. Authentication Enforcer – Centralized authentication processes. Authorization Enforcer – Specifies access control policies. Credential Tokenizer – Encapsulate credentials as a security token for reuse (e.g., SAML, Kerberos). Assertion Builder – Define processing logic for identity, authorization and attribute statements. User Role – Identifies the role asserted by the individual initiating the transaction. Purpose of Use - Identifies the purpose for the transaction.

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration

Applicable Security Patterns for Consideration

The “Census Message” transaction allows for long-term and post-acute care settings to notify the servicing pharmacy of a patient’s admission, discharge and/or transfer status.
See NCPDP projects in the Interoperability Proving Ground.

Secure Communication – Create a secure channel for client-to- serve and server-to-server communication.
Secure Message Router – Securely route and enforce policy on inbound and outbound messages without interruption of delivery.
Authentication Enforcer – Centralized authentication processes.
Authorization Enforcer – Specifies access control policies.
Credential Tokenizer – Encapsulate credentials as a security token for reuse (e.g., SAML, Kerberos).
Assertion Builder – Define processing logic for identity, authorization and attribute statements.
User Role – Identifies the role asserted by the individual initiating the transaction.
Purpose of Use - Identifies the purpose for the transaction.

Comment

Submitted by pwilson@ncpdp.org on 2020-11-07

NCPDP Comment

Need to change NCPDP SCRIPT Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 2017071 to NCPDP Specialized Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 2017071 with the following updates:

Standards Process Maturity – Final Implementation Maturity- Production Adoption Level – 3 Federally Required – No Cost – $ Test Tool Availability – Yes

Test Tool Link: https://tools.ncpdp.org/erx/#/home
For NCPDP SCRIPT Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 10.6, need to update the Test Tool Availability to Yes. Test Tool Link: https://tools.ncpdp.org/erx/#/home

Submitted by pwilson@ncpdp.org on 2019-09-23

NCPDP Comment

Need to change NCPDP SCRIPT Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 2017071 to NCPDP Specialized Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 2017071 with the following updates:

Standards Process Maturity – Final Implementation Maturity- Production Adoption Level – 3 Federally Required – No Cost – $ Test Tool Availability – Yes Test Tool Link: https://tools.ncpdp.org/erx/#/home