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Bamboo Health & Bicycle Health Partner to Enhance Telehealth Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

by Fred Pennic 03/02/2022 Leave a Comment

Bamboo Health & Bicycle Health Partner to Enhance Telehealth Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

What You Should Know: - Bamboo Health today announced an expanded partnership with Bicycle Health to enhance care collaboration for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, ahead of their upcoming participation at ViVE and HIMSS. - Bicycle Health will leverage the company’s Pings™ and Spotlights™ solutions for real-time insights into the emergency department (ED) and acute inpatient care utilization for improved outcomes, as well as to understand the impact of
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Learning from Financial Fraud Detection to Tackle Opioid Abuse Amid COVID-19

by Dr. Gidi Stein, MD, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of MedAware 09/30/2021 Leave a Comment

Learning from Financial Fraud Detection to Tackle Opioid Abuse Amid COVID-19

Despite falling from its prominent place in the headlines, America’s opioid crisis is still raging. Anxiety, stress, depression, and isolation caused by the pandemic have contributed to substance use disorders. At the same time, the Drug Enforcement Administration has loosened prescribing restrictions, including waiving the requirement for in-person visits and allowing clinicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine alone. Given these conditions, it is not surprising that over
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Bicycle Health Raises $27M for Virtual, Evidence-Based Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

by Fred Pennic 06/22/2021 Leave a Comment

Bicycle Health Raises $27M for Virtual, Evidence-Based Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

What You Should Know: - Bicycle Health, a Boston, MA-based virtual care provider of evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder, today announced a $27 Million Series A investment led by Questa Capital with participation from City Light Capital, Emily Melton and previous investor SignalFire. -  In addition, Bicycle Health is announcing national in-network insurance coverage from UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Medicare and Medicaid in select states, helping to make
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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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Does Physician Dispensing Contribute To The Opioid Crisis?

by Nicholas Benedict, MBA and Jonathan Ni 10/02/2019 Leave a Comment

Why The Opioid Epidemic Makes EHRs Essential To Public Health

According to the Center for Disease Control, an average of 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.  Although illicit opiates such as heroin and fentanyl are the primary drivers of the opioid crisis, prescription opiates still play a large role.  The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that 21-29 percent of patients who receive prescriptions for opioids will misuse the drug and 8 to 12 percent of opioid recipients will develop a disorder.  Almost all heroin users have misused
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Georgia Integrates Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs with EHRs Statewide

by Fred Pennic 05/21/2019 Leave a Comment

Partners HealthCare Integrates MassPAT with Epic EHR to Curb Opioid Abuse

Appriss Health announced that Georgia is integrating its prescription drug monitoring programs into EHR systems of all prescribers across the state with Appriss Health’s PMP Gateway solution. This is being made possible by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant – so all prescribers can instantly access prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) information directly in the clinical workflow.Substance use disorder (SUD) is estimated to affect 21 million people, according to a report
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Cerner Integrates EHR to Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in 46 States

by Jasmine Pennic 05/14/2019 Leave a Comment

Opioid Crisis Survey: Patients Support Prescription Monitoring Programs

As states mandate the physician’s review of prescription drug data, it is increasingly important that they can quickly access critical drug information directly within a person’s electronic health record (EHR). Today, Cerner has announced that it will launch a nationwide connection from the EHR to each state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP), creating quicker and more efficient access through a partnership with medication management provider DrFirst. In partnership with DrFirst,
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1 in 10 Americans Have Offered Unused Opioids to Family and Friends

by Jasmine Pennic 04/22/2019 Leave a Comment

Why The Opioid Epidemic Makes EHRs Essential To Public Health

One in 10 Americans admits they’ve offered or given their unused prescription drugs to a friend or family member for either medical or recreational use, according to findings from a new consumer study conducted by Stericycle, a provider of highly specialized compliance-based healthcare and waste solutions. Despite that, a majority of Americans (75%) believe that people sharing or selling their unused prescriptions, including opioids (e.g., oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine) is contributing to the
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Partners HealthCare Integrates MassPAT with Epic EHR to Curb Opioid Abuse

by Fred Pennic 03/15/2019 Leave a Comment

Partners HealthCare Integrates MassPAT with Epic EHR to Curb Opioid Abuse

Partners HealthCare today has fully integrated the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT) directly into it's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system. The integration marks Partners as the first healthcare network to have the tool immediately available to clinicians at the point-of-care and demonstrating a significant step forward in the Commonwealth’s efforts to align health care providers across Massachusetts on a common platform to monitor opioid
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