Providers have begun to harness technology to improve their management of opioids and avoid misuse. It’s not a moment too soon.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will enable EHR integration of PDMP data for safer prescribing across the state.

Allscripts’ nationwide integration partnership with PDMP platform vendor Appriss Health aims to maximize the impact of PDMP data by providing data access within the clinician’s workflow.

eClinicalWorks recently released a new EHR-integrated health IT tool designed to assess a patient’s risk for opioid misuse.

KLAS sees health system decision makers wanting vendors to give them needed functionalities: point of care access to PDMPs, specific clinical decision support and more.

Allscripts plans to integrate information from various state-regulated electronic prescription drug monitoring programs into its EHR systems through a partnership with Appriss Health.

eClinicalWorks and Allscripts recently launched new EHR tools designed to boost health data access for providers to improve care quality.

Mercy Health earned a 2018 HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence for its work in using health IT to help treat the opioid epidemic.

Like many of you, I’ve been in healthcare for years and have seen the “next new thing” come and then fade away – in place of the next new thing. I’ve seen whitepapers, and journey maps, mind maps, environmental scans; you name…