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Data show prescribing patterns linked to $78B opiate problem

March 16, 2017 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Data show prescribing patterns linked to $78B opiate problem

23K opiate pills per person Drug wholesalers shipped 9 million pain pills over two years to a single West Virginia pharmacy in a town of 392 people. It is unfathomable how that data could have gone unchecked. “The distributors knew what was going on. They just didn’t care,” Sam ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, Health care, healthcare innovation, Nursing Tagged With: AHCA, AI, American Health Care Act, artificial intelligence, Dr. Keith Berge, Harvard Medical School, healthcare analytics, Mayo Clinic, Michael Barnett, NARxCHECK, Omnicell Analytics, opioid abuse, Rudolph NDR System, T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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#HITSM Chat

[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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