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Bill would allow sharing deidentified EMS overdose data with ODMAP to spot spikes in near real time
Summary
Director Jeremy Drucker presented an agency bill to permit the Office of Emergency Medical Services to share deidentified emergency medical services data with the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP). The committee referred House File 1429 to the Judiciary, Finance and Civil Law Committee.
The committee heard an agency bill on March 10 to authorize sharing deidentified emergency medical services (EMS) overdose data with the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP), a near real‑time overdose tracking tool used by other states.
Jeremy Drucker, director of the state Office of Addiction and Recovery, told the committee the measure responds to a need for timelier, geographically precise overdose information to spot local spikes and coordinate rapid public health and safety responses. "When we do have really solid real time data, we can spot patterns like if there's a particularly, dangerous drug batch," Drucker said, describing ODMAP as a dashboard that tracks overdoses by ZIP code and can prompt faster distribution of naloxone and public alerts.
What the bill would do: The measure authorizes the…
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