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Committee approves sharing deidentified EMS overdose data with national ODMAP system
Summary
House File 1429 would allow deidentified emergency medical services (EMS) data on overdoses to be shared with the national ODMAP system to identify overdose spikes more quickly; committee adopted an amendment clarifying data elements and voted to place the bill on the general register.
The House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee on March 20 advanced House File 1429, a bill to allow limited, deidentified EMS overdose data to be shared with ODMAP, a national overdose mapping platform used by first responders and public-health officials.
Sponsor Chair Liebling described the bill as a public-health tool that would let officials spot overdose spikes more quickly and distribute naloxone or other responses when a dangerous batch of drugs appears in a community. Jeremy Drucker, director of the Office of Addiction and Recovery, told the committee that 27…
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