{"slug":"fort-healthcare-implements-high-risk-alerts-to-combat-opioid-epidemic","url":"https://findausecase.com/use-cases/fort-healthcare-implements-high-risk-alerts-to-combat-opioid-epidemic","title":"Fort HealthCare implements high-risk alerts to combat opioid epidemic","description":"Fort HealthCare, the sole hospital in rural Jefferson County, Wisconsin, deployed Cerner's (Oracle Health) Clinical Decision Support Opioid Toolkit, which analyzes prescription history and trend analytics to generate near real-time high-risk alerts prompting providers to discuss naloxone provisioning with at-risk patients under an opioid treatment agreement.","company":"Fort HealthCare","industry":"Healthcare","country":"United States","aiCapabilities":["Predictive Analytics"],"technology":["Cerner Clinical Decision Support Opioid Toolkit","Oracle Health"],"deployment":"Unknown","problemStatement":"A standard opioid treatment agreement (OTA) was difficult to locate within individual charts and depended on voluntary patient disclosure, so clinicians were frequently unaware of an active OTA, and gaps like these could prevent access to interventional therapeutics including naloxone, leading to increased suffering, adverse events, and overdose mortality.","solutionApproach":"Cerner's high-risk alert for naloxone provisioning went live on Feb. 4, 2022. The alerts are designed to respond to individual prescription history and trend analytics, notifying physicians and care team members when a patient is under an OTA and could be considered vulnerable.","businessValue":"After resourcing Cerner's opioid management solution, Fort HealthCare saw a 53% decline in the number of patients with opioid prescriptions and a 49% decline in the number of patients with benzodiazepines prescriptions.","evidence":{"band":"high"},"sourceUrl":"https://www.oracle.com/customers/fort-healthcare/","dates":{"publishedAt":"2026-09-24T05:49:11.364Z","publishedAtSource":"pipeline","updatedAt":"2026-09-24T05:49:11.364Z"},"license":"Open for reading and citing with a link to https://findausecase.com/use-cases/fort-healthcare-implements-high-risk-alerts-to-combat-opioid-epidemic. Bulk republication requires permission."}