Bamboo Health provides a real‑time care intelligence platform that aggregates physical and behavioral health events from hospitals, health plans, pharmacies, and state agencies into a standards‑based API. The solution delivers bidirectional FHIR/HL7 data exchange, automated alerts, and analytics to support care coordination, value‑based reporting, and regulatory compliance for health plans, providers, and government agencies.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Healthcare organizations often operate with siloed physical and behavioral health data, leading to delayed information exchange, fragmented care coordination, and suboptimal patient outcomes. Payers, providers, and government agencies lack a unified, real‑time view of patient encounters, which hampers value‑based care initiatives and increases administrative overhead.
Solution
Bamboo Health delivers a Real‑Time Care Intelligence platform that aggregates physical and behavioral health events across a nationwide collaboration network. The solution streams encounter data from hospitals, health plans, state agencies, pharmacies, and post‑acute facilities into a single, standards‑based API, enabling immediate visibility within existing clinical workflows. Embedded alerts notify clinicians when patients receive care elsewhere, supporting proactive decision‑making and smoother care transitions. Advanced analytics surface utilization patterns, controlled‑substance use, and gaps in behavioral health services, informing quality‑improvement programs and policy decisions. The platform is built on interoperable standards such as FHIR and HL7, ensuring secure, bidirectional data exchange with EHRs, HIEs, and pharmacy management systems. By providing actionable intelligence at the point of care, the service helps stakeholders reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements, and advance value‑based reimbursement models.
Target Audience
Primary customers include health plans, hospitals and health systems, state health agencies, accountable care organizations, and community/behavioral health providers seeking integrated, real‑time patient intelligence to improve care coordination and value‑based outcomes.
Features
- Real‑time, bidirectional data integration via FHIR‑compatible APIs that pull physical and behavioral health events into EHR and HIE workflows
- Automated alerts for cross‑provider encounters, controlled‑substance prescriptions, and post‑discharge activities delivered directly to clinician dashboards or mobile apps
- Care transition tracking engine that maps patient journeys across hospitals, ACOs, community health centers, and post‑acute facilities to identify gaps and trigger follow‑up actions
- Analytics suite with population‑level dashboards, utilization heatmaps, and predictive risk models for value‑based care reporting
- Secure, HIPAA‑compliant data exchange infrastructure supporting 1 billion annual patient encounters and 100 % coverage of major retail pharmacy chains
- Role‑based access controls and audit trails that satisfy state and federal compliance requirements for substance‑use monitoring and Medicaid reporting
- Scalable network architecture connecting over 2,500 hospitals, 50 state governments, and the nation’s largest health plans, enabling rapid onboarding of new partners