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“Not only would we have to log in separately to the state PDMP portal, we also would have to re-enter patient data such as the name and date of birth,” said Louis Jeansonne IV, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer for Ochsner Health. “And then sometimes we’d have trouble finding the correct patient. All these steps added up to be overly time consuming.”

Vivek Parwani, MD MHA FACEP, Medical Director of the Adult Emergency Department at Yale New Haven Hospital, explains the successful integration of a state-of-the-art opioid stewardship solution—which includes the nation’s leading PDMP data visualization solution, advanced analytics, and patient-matching technology— with its Epic electronic health record system.

With the PDMP-EHR integration, physicians avoid the tedious process of exiting the EHR, logging into the PDMP and running a query, and saves several minutes for each patient. It’s now such a quick process—around five seconds—that they can access it during a patient encounter, without sacrificing face-to-face interaction. Physicians can also confidently prescribe knowing that a patient’s PDMP history in Florida has been consolidated with other state PDMP data for that patient where the states have agreed to share the data.