PDMP SOLUTIONS
Enhancing Provider Efficiency and Compliance Across The Nation
Complementing PMP InterConnect®, PMP Gateway® provides a secure, streamlined interface for PDMP operations. By integrating analytics, insights and resources into electronic health records, health information exchanges, and pharmacy management system workflows, PMP Gateway makes it easy and efficient for healthcare providers and pharmacists to access patient information, in line with state laws, before prescribing/dispensing additional medication. It amplifies the effectiveness of PDMPs by enhancing data security and accessibility, ensuring that critical information is readily available when and where it’s needed most.
52
States and Territories
using PMP Gateway
270.5K
Facilities with PMP Gateway
Integrated Access
1.2M
Prescribers and pharmacists
using the PMP Gateway
14.4M
Patient encounters are
facilitated each month
Statistics as of
A WORKFLOW INTEGRATION
What Is PMP Gateway?
PMP Gateway is a platform that integrates PDMP data, analytics, insights, and resources into electronic health records and pharmacy management system workflows, making it easier for healthcare providers and pharmacists to quickly and easily retrieve a patient’s controlled substance history at the point of care and in accordance with the laws of each state.
HOW IT STARTED
Creating A Streamlined PDMP Workflow
An effort to create a prescription drug interstate data sharing infrastructure began in 2004. Due to the slow progress of that project and the urgent need for PDMPs to share data, in late 2010 an enterprising group of state PDMP administrators and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) took action to develop their own tool. They designed and developed the specifications and engaged Bamboo Health to execute their vision, which would become PMP InterConnect, the only national network of PMPs.
The collaboration completed the initial phase of the project in nine months and launched the system in August 2011 with data exchanges between Indiana, Ohio and Virginia. Since that time, NABP, the PDMP administrators and Bamboo Health have worked together to add and improve functionality, usage and adoption. Today more than 90% of the nation’s PDMPs use PMP InterConnect to exchange data for hundreds of millions of patient encounters each year.
Discover the Benefits & Impact of PMP Gateway
GAINING EFFICIENCY
PMP Gateway Saves 4.22 min./Patient with a Streamlined Workflow
2 steps using PMP Gateway
8 steps without using PMP Gateway
PMP Gateway Facts & Highlights
Clinical Workflow Integration Facts
- PDMP data and analytics are now integrated into physician and pharmacist workflows through electronic health records, hospital systems, health information exchanges, and pharmacy management systems in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico with PMP Gateway.
- Over 107 million transactions are now completed each month, as of March 2022.
- PDMP data provides clinical decision support, patient support, patient engagement, and care coordination within workflow.
- PDMP data is available for every patient encounter with one click.
- The process is secure and efficient for practitioners and pharmacists.
- Native integrations are complete with over 130 electronic health records and every major pharmacy system vendor, making implementation quick for interested health systems and pharmacies.
Clinical Workflow Integration Security Highlights
- All health systems communicating with PMP Gateway are authenticated with their assigned system–level credentials.
- All communications to and from PMP Gateway are conducted over SSL.
- Two–way SSL is also offered for facilities located in certain states.
- PMP Gateway enforces data sharing and access requirements.
- PMP Gateway encrypts all data that is stored using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256.
- Annual vulnerability and penetration security audits are performed by an external vendor.
- Annual HIPAA security assessments are performed by an external vendor.
CASE STUDY
PRISMA HEALTH
The Challenge
South Carolina mandates prescribers to query SCRIPTS, the state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) before writing or continuing a prescription for a controlled substance. South Carolina has been consistently among the 10 states with the highest opioid-related death rates. Recently, the state’s providers wrote 60.4 opioid prescriptions for every 100 persons, compared to the U.S. average of 46.7 prescriptions for every 100 persons.
The Solution
Prisma Health partnered with Bamboo Health to provide over 1,000 clinicians with access to SCRIPTS through EHR workflow using PMP Gateway. PMP Gateway makes accessing data and analytics easy by integrating it directly in the clinical workflows of major EHRs. This interoperability allows clinicians to retrieve patients’ prescription histories in seconds and spend more face-to-face time with their patients.
Time
Savings
With the PDMP-EHR integration, physicians avoid the tedious process of exiting the EHR, logging into the PDMP and running a query.
Boosted
Confidence
Physicians can also confidently prescribe knowing that a patient’s PDMP history has been consolidated with other state PDMP data for that patient where the states have agreed to share the data.
They can better communicate with insurance companies when they review the of pain medication prescribed.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is PMP Gateway?
PMP Gateway is a platform that integrates PDMP data, analytics, insights, and resources into electronic health records and pharmacy management system workflows, making it easier for healthcare providers and pharmacists to quickly and easily retrieve a patient’s controlled substance history at the point of care and in accordance with the laws of each state.
What are the benefits of PMP Gateway?
By integrating PDMP data, analytics, insights, and resources into electronic health records and pharmacy management system workflows, PMP Gateway reduces costs, increases efficiency and improves patient care and safety. Prior to the introduction of PMP Gateway in 2014, prescribers and pharmacists had to log into separate systems to query patient information which took important time away from patient care. PMP Gateway provides a comprehensive view of patient data within the clinician/pharmacist’s own workflow, which enhances decision making and care while saving them, on average, two to five minutes per patient.
Who owns PMP Gateway?
NABP and PDMP administrators in 2014 initiated the development of a tool that would make it easier for healthcare providers and pharmacists to access patient data in an easier, more efficient way vs. having to log into a separate system. They engaged Bamboo Health and PMP Gateway was born.
PMP Gateway is a managed service that integrates PDMP data, analytics, insights and resources with electronic health records, hospital systems, pharmacy management systems, and health information exchanges. Since 2014, Bamboo Health has owned, maintained and reinvented PMP Gateway, partnering with more than 130 electronic health record systems and every major pharmacy chain and pharmacy management system to provide PMP Gateway to over 1.11M prescribers and pharmacists at over 152,000 facilities nationwide.
How much does PMP Gateway cost its users?
The individual pharmacies and healthcare entities that use PMP Gateway pay a nominal annual license fee on a per provider or per pharmacy basis. This license fee provides the licensee access to integration support, 24×7 call center support, project management resources and more. In some cases, states have chosen to accelerate adoption by funding integrations for the entire state.
Why do they have to pay a fee for the service?
PMP Gateway offers a cost effective PDMP integration option to states and healthcare facilities providing access to multi-state PDMP data and advanced substance use disorder platforms directly within workflow for authorized prescribers and pharmacists nationwide. To meet the needs of the State PDMPs, EHR and Pharmacy Management System vendors, pharmacies, hospitals and other approved healthcare entities, PMP Gateway requires extensive support to ensure robust scalability, security, performance, end user support and more.
The annual license fee covers the cost of extensive services that ensure the optimal performance of the platform, allowing the clinician/pharmacist to reap the patient care and economic benefits of PMP Gateway. Each licensee has dedicated support personnel to ensure that data from PMP InterConnect integrates with their workflow systems in a way that quickly and efficiently provides them with the data they want in the format they want it, within the law of their state/territory The license fee also covers customization of state and local laws and extensive security features and audits and many other services.
Are there other platforms like PMP Gateway available to the states?
There are no other tools that provide the comprehensive clinical capabilities, analytics, and support as PMP Gateway.
