Hospitals leaning on EHRs for opioid management

Healthcare IT News: A new report from KLAS surveyed more than 100 various-sized providers for insights about how they're relying on technology to help them manage the opioid crisis in their communities. Electronic health records are a basic but critical tool in the fight, and expectations on vendors are high, the study shows.

The opioid epidemic is affecting every state, but Rather than ranking IT vendors based on the assessments of healthcare decision-makers, as it usually does, KLAS says it was more interested in learning about the strategies provider organizations nationwide are putting to work to improve their opioid stewardship.

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