Amendment ID: S2025-71-R2

2nd Redraft Amendment 71

Innovation in Prescription Monitoring

Mr. Keenan, Ms. O'Connor Ives, Ms. Forry and Ms. Flanagan move to amend the bill by inserting the following new section:-

SECTION __. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department of public health shall, not later than May 1, 2017, develop or provide for the development of a publicly available application-programming interface to enable the development of third party end-user software and applications that improve ease of access and utilization of the prescription monitoring program established under section 24A of chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the department may collaborate with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Corridor, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, regional chambers of commerce, or other innovation and technology hubs in the Commonwealth for design competitions or other initiatives that encourage such software and application designs from sources within the Commonwealth.