A new Standards & Interoperability Framework initiative launched today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT aims to create a common technical standard to allow prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) to share data with health IT tools used by providers for clinical decision support.
The initiative, described in a post to the Health IT Buzz blog, would be a boon to efforts to curb prescription drug abuse, writes Jennifer Frazier, a behavior health subject matter expert with ONC.
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November 14, 2013
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