The purpose of this recommended approach is to establish preferred strategies for presenting drug-drug interaction (DDI) clinical decision support alerts. A workgroup consisting of 24 clinical, usability, and informatics experts representing academia, health information technology (IT) vendors, healthcare organizations, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The recommendations include seven core elements should be included with DDI decision support, the consistent use of terminology, visual cues, minimal text, formatting, content, and reporting standards to facilitate usability.

Payne TH, Hines LE, Chan RC, et al. Recommendations to improve the usability of drug-drug interaction clinical decision support alerts. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015;22(6):1243–1250. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocv011