Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health Sytem has used a provider dashboard linked to its Epic EHR to nearly cut in half the number of opioid prescriptions written in its EDs, physician offices and community practice clinics. Over the past three years, Geisinger has gone from an average of 60,000 opioid prescriptions per month to 31,000. The health system has used the "controlled substance prescribing dashboard" to target specific healthcare sites that were writing disproportionately high numbers of opioid prescriptions. Geisinger says the dashboard acts as a standard education process for how to treat pain. It adds that its providers are required to review data from Pennsylvania's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program before issuing a controlled substance prescription, and document in the EHR that they reviewed the database and whether the information affects their decision to issue a controlled substance.
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