California hospitals can now integrate data directly from the California CURES prescription-drug monitoring database into emergency department workflow—improving front-line decision making—using the Collective Medical Platform.

The Collective Medical Platform provides an ED-specific solution (called EDie) that integrates with CURES—utilizing smart analytics to connect patient records, sift through past prescriptions in CURES, match against aliases, and pull relevant Schedule II-IV prescriptions based on criteria validated by California physicians. The platform then sends data about these prescriptions, any existing conditions, and any established care guidelines as part of a one-page EDie notification directly to the physician.

No separate query is required. No external portal login is needed. And no workflow disruption occurs.

Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula has already rolled out the CURES integration with EDie. Dr. Reb Close, a Community Hospital emergency physician, says that with the integration he’s “able to feel a lot better about prescribing medications as an ER doc, because I can now look at these records and see all of the recent controlled medications and how many unique prescribers and pharmacies my patient is currently visiting. Those, to me, are game-changing numbers.”

If your facility is not on the Collective Medical Platform, contact Gabe Waters at gabe.waters@collectivemedical.com for more information. If your hospital is already on the platform, someone from Collective Medical will be in touch with you in the coming days to facilitate your CURES/EDie integration. With additional questions on Collective Medical, please contact Kyle Erb at kyle.erb@collectivemedical.com.

Contact:
Kimberly Johnson, HASC Director of Association Services
(213) 538-0772
kjohnson@hasc.org