The PPS-N application allows national VA personnel to easily, quickly, and safely manage the VA National Formulary that determines the products, such as medications and supplies that are to be purchased and used by the VA hospital system. The key capabilities are listed below.
With PPS-N, users can:
Manage the National VA Formulary items. This ability includes being able to request the addition and update of items, and then approve these requests
Synchronize the National and Local versions of the VA Formulary Items
PPS-N enables an interface with a third-party Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) drug data source. With this interface, users can:
Manage additions and changes made in the COTS drug data source, including synchronization of this data with the PPS-N Enterprise Product List (EPL)
Search for data within the COTS drug data source
Manage the mapping of VA concepts to COTS concepts
Perform reports on items added by the COTS drug data source
With PPS-N, users are able to:
Perform simple and advanced searches for item data contained within PPS-N
Report on the item data contained within PPS-N
Retrieve pricing information from the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) system, and then to display this information to the PPS-N users
Retrieve Standard Medication Route information from the VA Enterprise Terminology Services (VETS), and then to manage this data within PPS-N