Health Data Explorer (HDE) is our secure, modular platform built to help medical examiners, coroners, and public health teams make faster, better-informed decisions. Designed in collaboration with professionals in the field, HDE supports complex workflows through customizable modules, each tailored to a specific aspect of medicolegal death investigation.
One of these is our new Smart Toxicology Module, developed to bring clarity and speed to one of the most challenging components of death investigation: toxicology.
The Challenge in Toxicology Analysis
Toxicology reviews are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and essential to understanding cause of death, especially in the context of the opioid crisis and the growing presence of synthetic substances. Medical examiner offices regularly face thousands of cases that must be analyzed for substance involvement, with manual workflows limiting their ability to respond quickly to new threats.
Without tools to efficiently analyze toxicology results, identify trends, and compare similar cases, critical insights can be delayed, and public health responses slowed.
A New Kind of Toxicology Analysis
The Smart Toxicology Module was built to solve exactly that. By combining HDE’s real-time dashboards, demographic filters, and smart automation with AI capabilities, the module gives forensic and public health professionals the tools to:
- Track substance frequency across sex, race, age, and geographic regions
- Detect emerging patterns in drug-related deaths over time
- Match current cases to similar historical ones for context and comparison
- Explore potential means and causes of death more quickly
The module surfaces high-value insights that help teams act with greater speed and precision. With visualizations like heatmaps, donut charts, and trend lines, users can easily navigate complex data and see the bigger picture.
Why It Matters
By dramatically reducing the need for manual review and simplifying toxicology analysis at scale, the Smart Toxicology Module allows medical examiners and public health teams to:
- Respond to drug trends sooner
- Allocate resources more effectively
- Focus on interpretation and decision-making
- Support better public health reporting and interventions
And like all of HDE, the module complies with HIPAA and public health privacy standards!
We’re excited to be rolling out the Smart Toxicology Module as part of our broader mission to make health data more actionable and impactful. Thank you for exploring the Smart Toxicology Module with us. Stay tuned for more updates to come!