Fierce Healthcare October 18, 2018
The Food and Drug Administration is looking at tech-based solutions to the opioid crisis, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said.
The Food and Drug Administration plans to release new guidance for opioid prescribing, which it intends to use as the basis of new digital training tools for providers aimed at addressing the addiction epidemic.
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., said staffers from the FDA will be meeting with the National Academy of Medicine in mid-November to start building a centralized hub of evidence-based guidelines for providers.
It would allow the FDA to use a digital tool to require physicians to undergo training before they could prescribe opioids in large amounts.