WSHA’s enhanced Acute Opioid Prescribing Data Dashboard is now live, marking a key step forward in supporting opioid prescribing safety in hospitals across the state.
We extend our sincere thanks to the WSHA PMP Clinical Advisory Council for their clinical insight and partnership in shaping these enhancements. The dashboard makes prescribing data more actionable and clinically relevant, and the Council’s guidance ensures it reflects practical clinical workflows and supports meaningful review, learning and improvement.
Dashboard enhancements include:
- Hospital‑level benchmarking, enabling comparison and shared learning.
- Pediatric age‑band views, strengthening safety oversight for younger patients.
- Combined dose strength and pill count, providing clearer context for acute prescribing decisions.
Recognizing statewide impact
Our hospitals are critical to advancing safe acute opioid prescribing. Many organizations are leveraging dashboard data to inform practice changes, education and quality improvements to boost patient safety.
Each hospital is expected to designate at least one accountable party to review the data each quarter, an approach endorsed by the WSHA Clinical Excellence Board, with hospital‑level review permitted under provisional authorization from the CMO or Facility Prescriber Oversight.
Our team is available for technical assistance, data interpretation and quality improvement support. Thank you to the clinicians, hospitals and council members whose collaboration continues to drive meaningful progress.
PMP council members include:
- Rachel Lundgren, MD, Confluence Health
- David Likosky, MD, EvergreenHealth
- David Zonies, MD, Harborview Medical Center, UW Medicine
- Grazia McFadden, RN, Mid Valley Hospital
- Hope Barnes, PharmD, MultiCare Health System
- Ben Savitch, MD, Overlake Medical Center
- Josh Griggs, MD, Skagit Regional Health
- Cori Dolan, PharmD, Snoqualmie Valley Hospital
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