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The state has signed the Kentucky-based healthcare IT company, which now operates PDMPs in 44 states, to run a heavily-debated program expected to launch in spring 2023.

While more data is still needed to reveal if mandated compliance programs decrease opioid prescription diversion and doctor shopping, new ONC studies show "substantial growth" in the use of EPCS and "widespread use" of PDMPs in 2021.

The guide helps inpatient and outpatient providers implement more advanced clinical decision support and integrate data from state prescription drug monitoring programs.

A pharmacotherapy expert walks readers through the ways different forms of heath IT can help detect and track prescription drug abuse – and prevent it.

The agency is floating new requirements for hospitals to report on syndromic surveillance, immunization registries, electronic case reporting and electronic reportable laboratory results. It also has new plans for quality reporting.

The Kentucky health system turned a highly manual search process entirely automatic – and is gaining some major rewards.

A time study showed the old workflow took 144 seconds to view an Rx report; the new, integrated workflow takes 10 seconds – saving 58 hours across the organization.

Added clinical insights into patients’ prescription histories, along with fewer login hurdles, are helping the hospital’s clinicians save time and save lives.

Further, the network’s clinical portal has served in times of crisis as a backup system for health systems in the case of unexpected EHR outages or planned upgrades.

The Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula combines technology and teamwork to tackle the opioid crisis, seeing more than a 50% decrease in the number of narcotic pills prescribed at local primary care clinics.