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Top Pain Management Technologies

Electronic Health Reporter

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 50 million American adults had chronic pain in 2016. The article Top Pain Management Technologies appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. That is a whopping 24 percent of the population unable to go about their daily […].

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Virtual Reality Pain Management with Children

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Virtual reality (VR) pain management apps and other technologies have been developing for over a decade to help children struggling with chronic pain conditions and rehabilitation. They reviewed and summarized various programs developed and utilized VR pain management with children. The Hospital for Sick Children.

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The U.S. is a Nation in Pain – America’s Life Expectancy Fell Again in 2016

Health Populi

American saw the greatest number of deaths from suicide and alcohol- and drug-induced fatalities was recorded in 2016. wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. life expectancy fell, again, in 2016. The Northeast and Midwestern U.S.

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Update: How empathy, education, communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell patient care

Society for Participatory Medicine

Five years later, I developed a questionnaire for Sickle Cell patients in hopes of improving their pain management. Because I had developed the pain questionnaire, administration asked me to be the Sickle Cell Coordinator for Care Advisor. In 2016, she was awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Top 3 Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) in Solving the Opioid Crisis

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

from 2016 through 2017, which led to HHS declaring a public health emergency in 2017. Better pain management. Before initiating therapy, proper pain assessment and treatment goals must be planned and discussed by health care providers or pain specialists. In 2019, an estimated 10.1

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Mayo Clinic Guidelines Cut Opioid Prescriptions

BHM Healthcare Solutions

The team compared 751 patients during the five months after the guidelines took effect (August-December 2017), to the 1,822 hip and knee patients during 2016 who met those criteria. And from 1999 to 2016, the number of opioid overdose deaths increased fivefold, the CDC says.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests. Voice technology also has massive potential for clinical drug trials.