From 2018 to 2022, as part of efforts to support health IT use in response to the continued increase in drug overdose deaths, ONC and CDC collaborated to develop an interactive tool and resource called the Integration Framework. This tool provides guidance to states to improve integration of state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) with clinicians’ health IT systems.
The Integration Framework includes how best to implement advanced technologies such as electronic clinical decision support (CDS) systems that clinicians are increasingly using to combat the crisis. It can help advance and scale PDMP integration with health IT systems (e.g., electronic health record (EHR) systems, health information exchanges, and pharmacy systems) in a variety of hospital, primary care, and outpatient settings…
The Integration Framework provides practical guidance on project execution, management, and communications for successful integrations, and includes the following resources:
- Quick Start Guide: context and background related to the terms, acronyms, and other technical and non-technical language used in integration planning
- Integration Taxonomy: a variety of approaches for integrating with the state PDMP
- Training Guidance: addresses common questions raised during the project
- Auditing Guidance: tips relevant to recording transaction for PDMP-EHR integrations
- MOU Guidance: provides key topics and points for consideration in developing PDMP-EHR data integration and sharing agreements
- Testing Guidance: provides specific test scenarios for integration sites to conduct testing prior to actual integration
- Testing Template: templates that may be helpful for testing documentation…
