Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2018, $1,000,000)
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) will build a sustainable data infrastructure to ensure timely collection, analysis, and dissemination of opioid data. Additionally, an action researcher will establish a suspected drug-induced death mortality review team. The data will be shared with Idahos strategic planning workgroup and other stakeholders. To address vulnerable populations, IDHW will work with the Idaho Office of Drug Policy and the Idaho Harm Reduction Project to distribute naloxone in communities across Idaho. To educate prescribers in rural Idaho on substance abuse treatment and safe prescribing, IDHW will work with the University of Idaho to extend its Project ECHO program, an evidence-based, technology-enabled collaborative learning model that builds a clinicians knowledge and ability to treat complex conditions. To evaluate Idahos efforts in educating prescribers on safe prescribing and PDMP utilization, IDHW will contract with a third-party evaluator.
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