Bamboo Health

Micro Merchant Systems interfaces with Bamboo Health for PMP Gateway and NarxCare

Bamboo Health PDMP Solution Overview
PMP NarxCare® is the PDMP solution for states that provides prescribers and dispensers with accurate, regulation-compliant PDMP data.

PMP Gateway® is the direct connection between PDMPs and EHRS. PMP Gateway enables multi-state, controlled substance data, analytics, and resources within EHRs and pharmacy management systems in real-time, at point-of-care.

NarxCare® is a robust analytics application and clinical decision support tool that helps prescribers and dispensers analyze controlled substance data from prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), assess overdose risk, and manage substance misuse or substance use disorder (SUD) resulting in more informed prescribing and dispensing decisions.

Who is Bamboo Health?
Bamboo Health is a healthcare technology solutions company focused on fostering care collaboration and providing information and actionable insights across the entire continuum of care. As one of the country's largest, most diverse care collaboration networks, our technology solutions equip healthcare providers and payers with software, information, and insights to facilitate whole-person care across the physical and behavioral health spectrums.

In collaboration with state governments, we built the nation’s most comprehensive, standards-driven data integration platform to combat the nation’s opioid epidemic. Our platform manages more than 400 million daily transactions and connects states, prescribers, pharmacies, and hospitals across the U.S. It enables seamless in-workflow visibility to patients’ controlled substance prescription drug history and a comprehensive solution that improves access to needed care for people with behavioral health conditions and social determinants of health challenges.
 
Our real-time clinical decision support and insights are integrated into the workflows of more than 500+ EMRs, EHR, pharmacy management systems, HIEs, and e-prescribing tools. Combined, our data analytics solutions and bi-directional communication capabilities support whole-person care, improve health outcomes, and reduce healthcare spending.  

Improving patient care with prescription drug monitoring programs
Checking your state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) is essential for safer dispensing. Here are four reasons pharmacies should check their state PDMP to help improve patient care:

• Supports More Informed Clinical Decisions. PDMPs give healthcare providers and pharmacies a complete controlled substance prescription history for each patient, allowing for more-informed decisions and early interventions.
• Lowers Rates of Opioid Misuse and Overdose. PDMPs aim to prevent adverse drug-related events such as drug diversion, opioid overdose, and substance abuse – without hampering access to the appropriate medical use of controlled substances.
• Risk of Adverse Effects Due to Polypharmacy. When patients receive multiple prescriptions from multiple healthcare providers, there is an increased risk of adverse events due to polypharmacy. PDMPs help prevents these types of risks by identifying patients who have been prescribed potentially dangerous combinations of drugs.
• Saves Lives Through Use of Data. North America has the highest drug-related mortality rate in the world, accounting for 1-in-4 drug-related deaths globally. PDMPs are essential in fighting this opioid crisis - ensuring patients have access to safer, more effective chronic pain treatment and ultimately saving lives daily.

In collaboration with Bamboo Health, Micro Merchant Systems now has pre-built connectivity enabling access to state PDMP and clinical decision support tools within your PrimeRx™ workflow. 

With one-click PDMP access in your pharmacy system workflow, 85% of pharmacists believe they should take an active role in reducing opioid addiction.

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(Alternate stat: Over 99% of the pharmacy users liked having prescription drug monitoring program data in their workflow and would not want to go back to manually accessing PDMP data. Source: Appriss Health NPS Customer Survey)