Allscripts, Appriss Partner on Access to Prescription Med Monitoring, Abuse Data

Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX), a global leader in health care technology, today announced a nationwide integration partnership with Appriss Health, provider of the most comprehensive platform for substance use disorder (SUD) in the U.S., to enable point-of-care access directly to prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) information and Appriss Health’s NarxCare platform via Allscripts ePrescribe, Allscripts Professional EHR™, Allscripts TouchWorks® EHR, Practice Fusion™ EHR and Allscripts Sunrise™ electronic health record (EHR) platforms. The integration, via Appriss Health’s PMP Gateway platform, of information, advanced analytics, tools, and resources into Allscripts’ platforms can help support clinical decision making, improve patient outcomes, and better ensure patient safety.

This partnership will accelerate access and increase utilization for prescribers across all Allscripts’ EHR platforms using Appriss Health’s NarxCare platform. Utilizing this new integration model, when providers sign up and update their EHR or ePrescribe version, the integration will be automatically established from the practice direct to Allscripts, which in turn sends, receives and delivers the data from NarxCare back to the provider in real-time.

“Our vision at Allscripts is to build open, interoperable connected communities of care,” said Tom Langan, CEO, of Payer & Life Sciences at Allscripts. “As the opioid crisis grows, changes and continues to devastate the U.S., we are aggressively moving to provide our clinicians with a solution that offers objective information and insights into a patient’s risk for drug misuse, abuse, overdose, and death, so patients can be provided with the most effective and appropriate care. This integration partnership with Appriss Health is one in a series of important steps we are taking to act on our mission to efficiently deliver the best solutions available to our providers to enable smarter care, with greater precision, for healthier patients and communities.”

Recently, the CDC predicted that more than 71,000 people in the U.S. died from drug overdose death in the 12-month period ending in January 2018.

Appriss Health’s PMP Gateway platform increases utilization of PDMP information, other information, resources and more, up front, for every patient, at every patient encounter. By delivering both PDMP information and NarxCare within the clinicians’ workflow in Allscripts, this one-click process eliminates the need for providers nationwide to manually log into each state PDMP website separately and then enter a patient’s name and demographics. This easy access to real-time information helps providers to better evaluate and intervene as appropriate with their patients.

All Allscripts ambulatory and acute EHR platforms feature electronic prescribing of medications, a central component of the clinical workflow process which both informs and automates the prescribing process in real-time for thousands of prescribers and millions of patients.

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