Knowledge about patients’ opioid use after cesarean section surgery and before discharge could help inform more individualized prescriptions and cut down on unnecessary, leftover pills, a study...
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) is partnering with the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP) to map four PQA opioid measures so the organizations can utilize...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an agreement with Millennium Health, an accredited specialty laboratory, to combat the opioid crisis using near real-time drug testing...
Emory Healthcare and Verily, a healthcare entity owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, are collaborating to develop new solutions that will help improve cost-effectiveness, operational...
Evaluating clinical and socioeconomic data among cancer survivors could help providers develop risk scores to predict those at high risk of misusing opioids after treatment, according to a study...
North Carolina has implemented several measures that have combated the opioid epidemic across the state, but more work could be done to increase the rate at which people with opioid use disorder (OUD)...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) has launched a new campus center focused on using genomics and precision medicine to find solutions to modern problems in medicine, agriculture, and...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing $301 million in funds to states and jurisdictions to enhance the actionability of overdose data.
Funded programs will generate...
Using a five-year, $8.9 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, psychiatry and radiology researchers from Penn Medicine will create a new Center of Excellence focused on taking a...
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced the expansion of Virginia’s Framework for Addiction Analysis and Community Transformation (FAACT), a data sharing platform that aims to generate...
A team at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has developed a real-time data analytics tool to help treatment centers and counselors identify and treat drug abuse.
Nonprofits trying to...
Brown University, with a $12.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is launching a new Center for Disease Risk and Addiction Exacerbation (CADRE) that will focus on the...
A national survey of pharmacy directors revealed that pharmacists play an active role in stewardship programs to prevent the misuse of opioids. Stewardship programs are coordinated programs that...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $5.8 million to the University of Pittsburgh Division of Internal Medicine to support opioid research in Appalachia, a region that has been...
Regenstrief Institute will host a pilot grant program and solicit ideas for how to use data to solve the opioid crisis, the organization announced at its Opioid Collaboratory.
At the meeting of nearly...
A pain management program aimed at urologic cancer patients who underwent robotic surgery resulted in just eight percent going home with opioid prescriptions after discharge, compared to 100 percent of...
Machine learning algorithms can offer effective risk stratification to identify individuals at elevated risk of an opioid overdose, says a new study published in JAMA Network Open this month.
A...
Partners HealthCare has fully integrated the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT) directly into its electronic health record (EHR) system, becoming the first...
The FDA is expanding its efforts to address opioid abuse in 2019, with plans to utilize data analytics, implement new policies, and enhance research and innovation to combat the ongoing public health...
Google is working to support public health by adding detailed opioid disposal site data to its maps and search results, according to a blog post from the tech company.
Recognizing that the majority of...
