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The Minnesota Electronic Health Record (MN EHR) Consortium and Hennepin County have launched a new data dashboard that monitors the opioid and substance use crisis in Hennepin County. This interactive, online report shows substance involved emergency and hospital visits of Hennepin County residents. It uses real-time electronic health record data, updated monthly.

Public health, human services, healthcare, community-based organizations, researchers, policymakers, and others can use this data to identify emerging trends, help target lifesaving interventions, or for use in resource allocation, and policymaking.

“The dashboard shows the near real-time impact of the substance use crisis in Hennepin County hospitals,” said Dr. Tyler Winkelman, General Internal Medicine Division Director at Hennepin Healthcare who leads the project for the MN EHR Consortium. “It can be used to identify emerging trends like the rise in opioid overdoses or to confirm that methamphetamine use is of concern.” he explains. “It will also be useful in evaluating interventions and investments in resources in a timelier manner.”

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