Are Treatment Services Ready for the Use of Big Data Analytics and AI in Managing Opioid Use Disorder?

Matthew Amer   ^{1, 2} , MBChB, BMSc ;   Rosalind Gittins   ³ , MPharm ;   Antonio Martinez Millana   ⁴ , MSc, PhD ;   Florian Scheibein   ⁵ , BMSc, MSc ;   Marica Ferri   ⁶ , MSc, PhD ;   Babak Tofighi   ⁷ , MS, MD ;   Frank Sullivan   ² , MBChB, PhD ;   Margaret Handley   ⁸ , MPH, PhD ;   Monty Ghosh   ⁹ , MD, MSc, MPH ;   Alexander Baldacchino   ² , MBChB, MD, PhD ;   Joseph Tay Wee Teck   ² , MBChB, PGDip, MSc

¹ NHS Tayside, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom

² DigitAS Project, Population and Behavioural Science Research Division, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

³ Aston Pharmacy School, Pharmaceutical & Clinical Pharmacy Research Group, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston, United Kingdom

⁴ Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

⁵ South East Technological University, Waterford City, Ireland

⁶ European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal

⁷ Friends Research Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁹ Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada