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Opioid Epidemic | EPCS | News, Analysis, Insights

Groups Recover Together Nabs $60M for Value-Based Care Platform for Opioid Addiction Treatment

by Jasmine Pennic 05/05/2021 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - Groups Recover Together (Groups), a national leader in value-based care for opioid addiction treatment, today announced it has raised $60 million in Series C financing. Oak HC/FT led the round, joining existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Transformation Capital, RRE Ventures, Optum Ventures and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. - The latest financing will support the expansion of Groups’ treatment model from locations in 12 states to at least 17 states by the end
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VA Taps Appriss for Drug Monitoring to Curb Substance Abuse

by Jasmine Pennic 11/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Why The Opioid Epidemic Makes EHRs Essential To Public Health

What You Should Know: - The Department of Veteran Affairs is working with Appriss Health to tackle the veteran opioid epidemic via drug monitoring. - The tool will give VHA prescribers more complete clinical information, including controlled substance prescription histories, for patients, helping clinicians identify and prevent prescription drug misuse, resulting in better-informed care decision-making and improving patient safety.  Appriss Health, a provider delivering
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VA Announces First Cerner EHR Go-Live at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center

by Fred Pennic 10/26/2020 Leave a Comment

VA Announces First Cerner EHR Go-Live at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center

What You Should Know: - Cerner today announced the historic and successful first deployment of a modern EHR at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA. - The go-live marks the first time in history three federal departments (VA, DOD, and USCG) are using the same EHR. Cerner Corporation today announced the historic and successful first deployment of a modern electronic health record (EHR) at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA. The go-live marks the first
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FDA Grants AppliedVR Breakthrough Designation for Virtual Reality Chronic Pain Treatment

by Jasmine Pennic 10/21/2020 Leave a Comment

FDA Grants AppliedVR Breakthrough Designation for Virtual Reality Chronic Pain Treatment

What You Should Know: - FDA awards AppliedVR Breakthrough Device designation for treating treatment-resistant fibromyalgia and chronic intractable lower back pain - AppliedVR’s EaseVRx program helps patients learn self-management skills grounded in evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and other behavioral methods. AppliedVR, a pioneer advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced its EaseVRx product received Breakthrough Device designation
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Social Distancing: Addiction Recovery Programs Go Virtual for COVID-19

by Varun Goyal, Co-Founder and CEO of Illuminate Health 04/07/2020 Leave a Comment

Let’s Not Lose Sight of an Ongoing Crisis for the Pandemic

We have been following the social distancing guidelines for two weeks now with more weeks to go. One population that truly needs and is literally prescribed social interaction is that of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). In fact, the 12 step (recovery approach) community, relies on being social wherein attending group meetings to share experience, strength, and hope is a part of the proven philosophy. Turns out, social distancing while helpful with the COVID-19 crisis is creating another one;
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Norton Healthcare Fights Opioid Epidemic with PDMP Integration in Epic EHR

by Jasmine Pennic 02/04/2020 Leave a Comment

Kyruus ProviderMatch® Patient Access Platform Norton Healthcare

- Norton Healthcare, a health system serving patients in Kentucky and southern Indiana, is now deploying Appriss Health technology to integrate its prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) with its Epic electronic health record (EHR). - The solutions enable Norton Healthcare providers to share PDMP information across state lines and provide advanced analytic insights to improve opioid stewardship and help identify, prevent and manage substance use disorder in patients. -  This is helping to
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4 Digital Health Tools for Combating Opioid Addiction in 2020 & Beyond

by Kayla Matthews 12/31/2019 Leave a Comment

4 Digital Health Tools for Combating Opioid Addiction in 2020 & Beyond

The human and economic statistics surrounding the opioid epidemic are staggering. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 11.4 million people have misused prescription opioids, and more than 130 people die daily from opioid-related drug overdoses.Moreover, the Society of Actuaries found that the total economic burden of the opioid crisis in the United States from 2015 to 2018 was at least $631 billion. The organization attributed nearly one-third of that cost to extra
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How Innovations in Regional Nerve Blocks Are Helping Anesthesiologists Combat the Opioid Epidemic

by Dr. Armen Chalian M.D., Allied Anesthesiologist 11/25/2019 Leave a Comment

How Innovations in Regional Nerve Blocks Are Helping Anesthesiologists Combat the Opioid Epidemic

Opioid abuse — as you know — has now become a national crisis, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating a $78.5 billion annual burden on the American economy. What can be done? Advancing better practices for pain management is a key strategy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) plan for addressing this epidemic. This is where healthcare providers come in. If we can start our patients along a track that does not include the heavy use of opioids for
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RCM: Getting the Most from Your State’s All-Payer Claims Database

by Samir Panchal, Consultant, Freed Associates 11/18/2019 Leave a Comment

RCM: Getting the Most from Your State’s All-Payer Claims Database

This past year, California became the latest (and largest) state to legislatively mandate an all-payer claims database (APCD). As the name implies, an APCD is a statewide repository of all claims information from a state’s health care payers, including both commercial and government. The intent of an APCD is to help policymakers and others better understand the drivers of health care use and costs and spot usage trends across networks, facilities, and geographies. An APCD could also help assess
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AppliedVR, NCI Partner to Evaluate VR As Therapy for Cancer-Related Anxiety

by Fred Pennic 11/06/2019 Leave a Comment

AppliedVR, NCI Partner to Evaluate VR As Therapy for Cancer-Related Anxiety AppliedVR Awarded $2.9M Grants to Study Virtual Reality As An Opioid-Sparing Treatment

- AppliedVR announced a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate virtual reality (VR) as a solution to help address the underlying cancer-related anxiety. - The proof-of-concept study will evaluate AppliedVR’s virtual reality system on neuro-oncology patients’ “scanxiety,” a term used to describe the anxiety patients with cancer experience before or after medical diagnostics scans.AppliedVR, a Los Angeles, CA-based
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