Every state except Missouri has operated a statewide prescription drug monitoring program for many years. Now, Show-Me status has appeared to see the value of more advanced track controlled substances among registered providers.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Bamboo Health, which develops technologies for behavioral health and substance use disorders, said it will transform Saint Louis County’s existing PDMP, which covers about 85% of the state, to a new PDMP statewide – without the complicated data migration process.
The state of Missouri will pay $1.4 million to operate Missouri’s new statewide PDMP, which will absorb county data, according to a report in St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The PDMP of the St. Louis has been using Bamboo Health’s in-state pharmacy data platform since 2016 with multi-state data sharing through PMP InterConnect added in 2021.
Bamboo advertises that its platforms provide prescribers, distributors, and governments with real-time and regulatory compliance PDMP data.
According to the story, the county established its own program as the state stalled in a political deadlock and 75 local jurisdictions agreed to participate.
After establishing oversight, the state’s overall opioid prescriptions fell from an average of 80.4 opioid prescriptions per 100 people in 2016 to 58.3 prescriptions per 100 people in 2019, according to the data. cited by the Centers for Disease Control.
Despite a drop in opioid prescriptions, like other states, this hard-hit state has seen overdoses increase with the disease spreading across the country.
The state’s drug overdose panel indicates that non-heroin opioids, including fentanyl, a substance that is rarely tested in the emergency room, is responsible for the largest rate of opioid overdose deaths in the United States. all age groups by 2021.
In July, Dean Linneman, hired as Missouri’s PDMP executive in April 2022, told local Fox4 that “Every opportunity we have to reduce the number of drugs in circulation is an opportunity to save lives. a human network.”
Missouri received $25.3 million of the $1.5 billion total in federal opioid funding for all states and territories announced in September.
TREND TO BIGGER
Concerns about privacy and gun ownership have prompted the state of Missouri to delay conducting prescription drug surveillance.
However, in 2020, it is one of the three states with the highest gun death rates, and a number of specific state and national studies have linked substance abuse to suicide and suicide. close by gun.
While more data are needed to demonstrate that mandatory PDMP compliance programs reduce drug prescribing and physician procurement diversion, new data from the Office of the National Coordinator for Technology Health information shows that the effectiveness of drug monitoring programs is changing.
ONC analysts say PDMP use is stable between 2019 and 2021, with 78% of prescribers saying they have tested their state’s PDMP before prescribing controlled substances to patients first.
ON PROFILE
“There won’t be a law enforcement agency, there won’t even be a licensing board in the state of Missouri that won’t have access to that information,” Linneman told Fox4 in July.
“Even the state won’t really have access to patient-level information,” he said.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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