As the opioid crisis continues to wreak havoc on the nation's health and productivity, an Indianapolis-based startup called hc1 is applying artificial intelligence to a vast array of datasets in an attempt to uncover insights aimed at decreasing opioid misuse, abuse, and addiction. Brad Bostic, CEO of hc1, describes his venture as a healthcare relationship management company, a term he coined in 2011, the same year he started the company. With the rapid growth of cloud storage technologies, Bostic founded hc1 to harness the abundance of siloed data at both the patient and provider levels and create holistic consumer profiles that could span providers, and thus improve care. So far, hc1 has amassed 90 million HIPAA-compliant consumer profiles and has more than 1,000 customers that subscribe to its customer-relationship and data-parsing services. The current state of American healthcare, Bostic says, is "impersonal and appalling."

An Indiana healthcare tech company is bringing artificial intelligence and machine learning to the battle against the opioid epidemic. Indianapolis-based hc1.com has unveiled its Opioid Dashboard, designed to organize data that was previously disconnected and use it to fight opioid abuse and addiction. Saying "you can't manage what you can't measure," Chief Executive Officer Brad Bostic adds the platform can help government agencies and healthcare providers determine what programs are working, and develop new initiatives to predict opioid abuse. In November, the 2018 Indiana University Kelley School of Business economic forecast pegged the annual economic cost of the opioid epidemic in Indiana between $1.25-$1.8 President Donald Trump has declared the epidemic a national public health emergency.