AI May Influence Who Can Get or Prescribe Pain Medication
New tech can have unforeseen consequences if it improperly flags patients or doctors
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New tech can have unforeseen consequences if it improperly flags patients or doctors
Elizabeth Amirault had never heard of a Narx Score. But she said she learned last year the tool had been used to track her medication use.
Elizabeth Amirault had never heard of a Narx Score. But she said she learned last year the tool had been used to track her medication use.
The use of systems to analyze opioid-prescribing data has sparked questions over whether they have undergone enough independent testing outside of the companies that developed them, making it hard to know how they work.