This slide deck from ONC's 2018 Annual Conference outlines experiences and lessons learned from efforts to connect state-level Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) to health IT, including EHRs and HIEs. Specifically, the challenges enumerated included:
- Some states use proprietary products to access PDMP data (Currently, there is no widely adopted standard).
- Fragmented stakeholders require implementation guidance to accommodate multiple policies and scenarios.
- State PDMPs are stand-alone and don’t readily share/may be prohibited from sharing with other states (unless agreements are in place).
Slides toward the end of the deck share a number of lessons learned. Click through the link below to see more.