Jun 19 2019

Appriss Health has Achieved Critical Milestones in Integrating PDMP Information into Clinical Workflow and Facilitating Interstate Data Sharing

500,000 Providers Now have EHR and Pharmacy System Integrations; 51 PDMPs are Now Sharing Interstate Data; Innovative Solutions are Impacting the Opioid Crisis All Across the U.S.

May 22 2019

Understanding the Co-Occurrence of Mental Health Problems and Substance Use Disorder

May is Mental Health month and as we continue to battle the opioid crisis in communities across the United States, we can’t overlook the relationship between mental health and substance abuse problems.

Apr 25 2019

Combating The Risk of Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse, Overdose, and Death in the Military – and How Information Sharing Can Help

Learn how data and information sharing is helping the Military Health System (MHS) reduce potential prescription drug abuse and improve patient safety for military personnel and their families.

Oct 09 2018

A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain: Part XI – Epilogue

In Post XI of the blog series, “A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain,” our Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Huizenga brings the series to a close by offering some final thoughts on benefit and risk.

Sep 19 2018

A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain: Part X – Machine Learning

In Part X of our blog series “A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain,” our Chief Clinical Officer explains how Appriss Health uses machine learning to help better predict the risk of overdose by using PDMP data.

Sep 13 2018

A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain: Part IX – Understanding How PDMP Data is Scored

All patients are unique and there are multiple measurements that go into the calculation of a single score. In our latest blog post, Dr. Huizenga explains Appriss Health’s approach to scoring PDMP Data.

Sep 06 2018

A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain: Part VIII – Scoring PDMP Data

When practicing medicine, numbers are used to reassure or raise concern… However, they are not end points and you “should never treat a number,” writes our Chief Clinical Officer. Read more in Part VIII of our blog series “A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain.”

Aug 30 2018

A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain: Part VII – Interpreting PDMP Visualizations

Details can make a big difference when interpreting PDMP visuals. In Part VII, Dr. Jim Huizenga discusses how PDMP visuals only tell part of the story and why details matter.

Aug 23 2018

A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain: Part VI – PDMP Visualization

We closed out blog post V with an image of a typical PDMP report (it’s complex and complicated). Is there a better way to represent this PDMP data and allow a provider to see important patterns in just a few seconds? Yes! But it involves graphing out the data in an intuitive manner to make...

Aug 21 2018

A Balanced Approach to Opioids and Chronic Pain: Part V – Multiple Provider Episodes

Metrics represent measurable items that can sometimes be expected to be applied concretely to medical decision making. One example of an opioid metric is 90 morphine milligram equivalents (MME). Another example is “multiple provider episodes” (MPE).

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