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The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Information Exchange (PMIX) establishes a national interoperability architecture, specifications, and a reusable infrastructure for the secure, reliable, and sustainable interstate exchange of state prescription data. PMIX leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles through the Global Reference Architecture (GRA) to minimize custom development and maximize future agility.
PDMPs maintain statewide electronic databases of prescriptions dispensed for controlled substances (i.e., prescription drugs of abuse that are subject to stricter government regulation). Information collected by PDMPs may be used to support access to and legitimate medical use of controlled substances; identify or prevent drug abuse and diversion, facilitate the identification of prescription drug-addicted individuals and enable intervention and treatment, outline drug use and abuse trends to inform public health initiatives, or educate individuals about prescription drug use, abuse, and diversion as well as about PDMPs.
The PMIX Pilot Program is just a start. Infrastructure for the PMIX Pilot was tested in a successful pilot exchange of live data between the Kentucky All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting system and the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System or RxCheck Hub. Under the PMIX approach, all protected health information was encrypted at the message level so that private data was not visible to any intermediary servers outside state boundaries. The supporting technologies used for the Pilot follow:
Data interoperability was enabled through National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD).
Messaging interoperability was through a GRA PMIX Service Specification Package, including reliable secure web services capabilities.
A software development kit containing a State Routing Service intermediary and a reference implementation was used to reduce cost and accelerate adoption of the required state-side software.
The RxCheck Hub is the baseline implementation of the PMIX architecture. The hub was developed, with BJA support, to create an operational data sharing hub to implement the PMIX specifications and to deliver a functional, interstate, data-sharing hub. The RxCheck hub was designed with the involvement of the state PDMP practitioner community, private industry, and the Federal government, and began as the PMIX hub during a prototype development phase with data exchanges between Ohio and Kentucky. The hub was subsequently renamed the RxCheck hub to avoid confusion between the architecture and the hub.
Resource:
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Document
RxCheck Connection Guide (June 2014)
PMIX IEPD
In 2006 the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices organized a Policy Academy which included five states. A grant of $50,000 was used to fund research to encourage justice information sharing using the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). States included in the Policy Academy were Connecticut, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Carolina. Pilot projects focused on a variety of information exchanges. This report, drafted by the state of Connecticut, documents the CJIS-Meta Data Repository Project (CJIS-MDR), which is the data on the knowledge that is within an organization.
http://www.nga.org/cms/home.html
Participating Organization: Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division
Contact Organization: Office of Policy and Management
Contact Person: Terry Schnure
[email protected]
Contact Phone: 806-418-6390
In 2006 the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices organized a Policy Academy which included five states. A grant of $50,000 to each state was used to fund research to encourage justice information sharing using the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). States included in the Policy Academy were Connecticut, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Carolina. Pilot projects focused on a variety of information exchanges. This report, drafted by the state of Iowa, outlines some goals, outcomes, and lessons learned from the exchange of information between the County Attorneys and the Department of Corrections in Iowa.
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/07GJXDMIA.PDF
Participating Organization: Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning
Contact Organization: Iowa Department of Human Rights
Contact Person: David Meyers
[email protected]
Contact Phone: 515-281-6929
In 2006, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices organized a Policy Academy which included five states. A grant of $50,000 to each state was used to fund research to encourage justice information sharing using the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). States included in the Policy Academy were Connecticut, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Carolina. Pilot projects focused on a variety of information exchanges. This report, drafted by the state of New York, outlines the need to facilitate integrated justice information systems planning and implementation by enhancing the ability to access and share critical criminal justice information electronically at key decision points throughout the criminal justice process.
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/07GJXDMNY.PDF
Contact Organization: NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services
Contact Name: Valerie Shanley
[email protected]
Contact Phone: 518-457-6066
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful development of two NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Documents (IEPDs) and electronic data transmission involving the N-DEx subset of Uniform Crime Report (UCR) incident/offense and arrest data and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) data, through the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC).
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30016
The purpose of the External Alarm Interface Exchange IEPD is to provide a standard data exchange for electronically transmitting information between an alarm monitoring company and a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). This effort to upgrade the External Alarm Exchange IEPD was sponsored by the Public Safety Data Interoperability (PSDI) Program, funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and comanaged by the IJIS Institute and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials–International (APCO).
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30021
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the results and application of NIEM to the Consortium for the Exchange of Criminal Justice Technology (CONNECT), an interstate criminal justice information sharing initiative led by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC).
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30026
The State of Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) contacted the Connecticut Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) in 2007 to inquire whether it would be possible to use the CJIS Offender Based Tracking System (OBTS) to look for offenders who hold student transportation endorsements. A manual process was developed and implemented using PL/SQL Developer. Since the first data exchange, CJIS has standardized to NIEM 2.0. The process was defined and working, so CJIS decided to use this exchange as the pilot for NIEM 2.0 and the IEPD process.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30031
In an effort to establish the technology architecture needed across the jurisdictions, the National Capital Region (NCR) created a Data Exchange Hub (DEH) to act as a switching station for providing secure access to communications systems and applications. As a part of this effort, four information exchanges were identified as priorities and documented—NCR Resource Typing, Crisis Incident Management System (CIMS) Data Exchange, Records Management System (RMS) Exchange, and Computer-Aided Dispatch Exchange. These exchanges were developed using the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), and the resulting Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPDs) successfully demonstrated the utility of NIEM in the NCR project.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30036
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the success of the pilot design of an interstate prescription monitoring information exchange (PMIX) program between California and Nevada.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30041
Two projects in New Jersey are actively using and/or developing the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) standards for the sharing and processing of data.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30046
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the success of the development of a NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Document (IEPD) for the New York State Intra-State Criminal History Report (Rap Sheet) Project.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30051
To satisfy the need for standards and consistency, New York City decided to build on the success of Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) in the criminal justice domain and adopt NIEM 2.0-conformant data exchanges for ACCESS NYC and the overall Health and Human Services domain.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30056
As part of the ongoing efforts being made by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to integrate NIEM into its enterprise, the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list data is being converted to a format that uses NIEM data elements. OFAC’s completion of its NIEM-SDN pilot project has revealed the utility of a scalable, universal exchange format, and the hope is that future exchange relationships with other agencies will consume fewer resources and will be completed in shorter periods of time.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30061
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful development of a NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Document (IEPD) for Pennsylvania’s Court Case Event Messages through Pennsylvania’s Justice Network (JNET) and to draw attention to resulting documentation—NIEM Adoption Whitepaper, Performance Measurement Plan, and Lessons-Learned Report—that can guide future NIEM implementation efforts.
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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30066