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Abstract
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has become a major public health challenge. There have been several interventions, including those based on health-IT, proposed recently. There is a major need to study these interventions. We are interested in exploring how different IT-based interventions impact opioid related Quality of Life. We developed a model using Markov chain for three different states in OUD. The model and results can lead to better decision making by healthcare professionals, patients and insurance companies. More specifically, the proposed model and results can help in (a) whether to prescribe opioids to different types of patients, (b) what IT-based interventions are suitable with an opioid prescription, and (c) how patients and healthcare professionals can select an intervention out of multiple available interventions.
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Varshney, Upkar and Singh, Neetu, "Opioid Use Disorder: Studying Quality of Life with IT-based Interventions" (2020). AMCIS 2020 Proceedings. 6.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2020/healthcare_it/healthcare_it/6
Opioid Use Disorder: Studying Quality of Life with IT-based Interventions
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has become a major public health challenge. There have been several interventions, including those based on health-IT, proposed recently. There is a major need to study these interventions. We are interested in exploring how different IT-based interventions impact opioid related Quality of Life. We developed a model using Markov chain for three different states in OUD. The model and results can lead to better decision making by healthcare professionals, patients and insurance companies. More specifically, the proposed model and results can help in (a) whether to prescribe opioids to different types of patients, (b) what IT-based interventions are suitable with an opioid prescription, and (c) how patients and healthcare professionals can select an intervention out of multiple available interventions.
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