PMP Gateway

“UPMC physicians have come to expect the Bamboo Health PDMP access in the EHR as the norm for managing narcotics,” said Dr. Anthony Fiorillo, Medical Director of Ambulatory Health Record at UPMC. He often shows his patients their PDMP record during visits, sharing, “our monitors are front and center with many patients, and this infuses an element of truth in the conversation about medications.”

Norton Healthcare’s Narcotics Matrix Committee works continuously to address and define the organization’s prescribing levels and patterns and identify areas for improvement. Knowing that providing clinicians with access to the right data could impact Norton Healthcare’s overall prescribing levels and improve patient outcomes, the committee prioritized integration of actionable data and analytics into clinical workflows to provide prescribers with necessary data and improve clinical decision-making.

“At Marcrom’s Pharmacy, we have two to three pharmacists here every day, and they each check the system eight to ten times per day,” said Richard Randolph, PharmD. “With the new integration, we spend a quarter of the time versus having to go back and forth between standalone systems. Now, we only spend 15-20 seconds to get something done. Having this data integrated into our workflow has been fabulous!”

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 execute it during a patient encounter, without sacrificing face-to-face interaction. Physicians can also confidently prescribe knowing that a patient’s entire history has been consolidated.