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Providers turning to health IT to combat the opioid crisis

Providers turning to health IT to combat the opioid crisis

December 26, 2018

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Providers have begun to harness technology to improve their management of opioids and avoid misuse.

It’s not a moment too soon. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent reports, released in November, confirm that the opioid crisis is worsening. The number of drug overdose deaths in the United states in 2017 was 9.6 percent higher than in 2016. The rate of drug overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioids like oxycodone and hydrocodone has risen steadily since 1999.

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