Current Situation
Substance abuse and abuse of prescription drugs along with heroin is one of the most critical public health and safety issues facing the U.S. Opioid addiction causes 33,000 U.S. deaths annually.
Goals and Objectives
Identify root cause of addiction, and develop interventions that create sustained recovery. Monitor prescriptions and deter illegal drug use. Facilitate child welfare in families impacted by abuse.
Technology Deployed
Cloud-based digital transformation platform providing portals for advisories, social media alerts, data management, and integration across data sources; integrated case management; analytics, risk scoring, predictive modeling, and geospatial mapping; visualization and dashboards
Use Case Summary
Sharing data across ecosystem partners and deploying sophisticated analytics tools (machine learning) can identify individuals at risk, present the complexity tracking and stopping outbreaks and epidemics, align resources to those impacted, inform the public, and save lives.