Health IT Now Launches Opioid Safety Alliance To Advance Technology-Enabled Solutions To The Opioid Crisis

Health IT Now—a broad-based coalition of consumers, provider organizations, employers, and payers supporting health information technology to improve patient outcomes—announced today the launch of its Opioid Safety Alliance. The first-of-its-kind working group, comprised of Health IT Now (HITN) members and non-members alike, is dedicated to advancing technology-enabled solutions to combat the scourge of opioid misuse.

The launch of HITN’s Opioid Safety Alliance comes at a time when drug overdoses have now claimed more lives in a single year than car crashes, gun violence, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic at their respective . . .