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

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Since then, increased prescription of opioid medications by health care providers led to widespread misuse of prescription and non-prescription opioids until it became evident that these medications could indeed be highly addictive. from 2016 through 2017, which led to HHS declaring a public health emergency in 2017.

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

Health Populi

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. The Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on public health and healthy communities.

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Reimagining Pain in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Vijay Yanamadala, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sword Health and System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare. In 2017, after years of over prescribing opioids to treat pain, leading to opioid addiction for millions of Americans, opioid dependency was declared a public health emergency.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Adventist Health System (Altamonte Springs, Fla.). As the employer of more than 80,000 people, Adventist Health System aims to promote personal, professional and spiritual growth with its workplace culture. In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award.