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It also allowed the patient’s home to be classified as an originating site for telehealth delivery and created coverage and payment parity for the Medicaid, Medicaid managed care organizations, and commercial health plans. This new legislation will help those struggling with addiction access the care they need, in addition to pain management services, mental health services, and suicide prevention. A Prime Example of the Future of Telehealth Legislation. MORE
Karuna Labs, creator of personalized functional restoration and chronic pain management programs using Virtual Reality (VR) technology to retrain the brain, today announces $3 million in seed funding, led by Baseline Ventures, with investments from Anorak Ventures, the AET Fund, the Hustle Fund, Correlation Ventures, and Dreamit Ventures. MORE
wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. While the country has done a great job at addressing and preventing deaths due to heart disease and cancer, this trend of alcohol, drug and suicide mortality has reversed the positive gains made in the nation…indeed, a Nation in Pain. The Trust detailed a National Resilience Strategy in 2017 with elements of: Improving pain management and treatment. MORE
I have just finished co-teaching a month-long elective on the topic of pain to a group of rising 4th year medical students. In collaboratively planning the curriculum with my colleagues, we included the necessary “test-worthy” facts about pain management, but given the current climate of fear and uncertainty of the global pandemic, we also left space for exploring the broader experience of fear, pain and suffering. MORE
Those guests, who all happened to be doctors leading in the field, spoke about their work across a wide variety of use cases, such as patient education, treating mental health condition, pain management, surgical training and actual live surgery. Their products focus on motor, cognitive, physical, psychological, postural ability and pain assessment and treatment. How a former F-16 fighter pilot is flying high with new FDA and CE-registered medical applications using VR. MORE
Consider the patient and family perspective in making choices about pain management and opioid use CDS. The clinical visit for patients and caregivers represents a drop in the ocean of their health management. In 2018 we are supporting clinical care related to pain management and opioid use. Patients and Clinicians Manage Pain Together. While there are 46 words for snow in Iceland, English has far fewer synonyms for physical pain (e.g., MORE
While I focus on the programming with DeAnna Grosbaum and Janna Guinen, our colleague Mary Sheridan manages the myriad logistics and planning that go into a three-day event, along with a cadre of marketing, social media and event logistics gurus from HIMSS. ePal Pain Management App. We’re in full-scale planning mode for the 2019 Connected Health Conference and I am once again honored to be Program Chair. Our initial two tasks are complete. MORE
Florida-based Korunda Medical, which offers primary care and interventional pain management services, has agreed to pay the OCR $85,000 […]. For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly and within fee guidelines as required by HIPAA. MORE
As more patients struggle with pain management and addiction recovery, many health organizations are looking at telehealth as a possible solution to the opioid crisis. If a patient struggling with addiction reaches out to their primary care provider or a physician for pain management or addiction recovery services, providers can use live video and audio to connect and collaborate with substance abuse experts. Improving Pain Management. MORE
We were guided on how to cope with these remote processes where we were not present to manage or experience. And for the care recipients being managed, they were unable to communicate problems in their on-site, 'real' experience. Now there are training programs , VR initiatives for pain management , remote diagnostics , and more VR headset vendors. MORE
While the government and insurers are taking steps to curb opioid prescriptions and enhance treatments, nonmedication pain management needs to be pumped up as well to stop the problem at its core, executives at Amercian Specialty Health told FierceHealthcare MORE
He called for accelerating the translation of nonaddictive pain management strategies Francis Collins, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, discussed details of the NIH's new Helping to End Addiction Long-term initiative, which was launched in April. MORE
Positive data from the pragmatic study is the clearest evidence yet that in-hospital therapeutic VR could be effective in a live deployment, according to researchers MORE
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Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego announced a partnership with RWJBarnabas Health's Children’s Specialized Hospital to bring a pain management program to the West Coast MORE
FDA Approves New Opioid to Help Manage Acute Pain With High Regulations. At the end of 2018, the FDA authorized a new opioid to help manage acute pain called Dsuvia. Dsuvia can be administered to patients under the tongue for pain management, instead of requiring doctors to rely on intravenous routes for pain-relieving drugs like morphine. soldiers suffering from pain on the battlefield, where it can be given to patients quickly and easily. MORE
The epidemic has been traced back mainly to doctors legally administering high doses of powerful pain medication, such as oxycontin. AB 888 would also require the prescriber to refer a patient to non-pharmaceutical methods of pain treatment, and have a patient’s written consent (or a parent/guardian’s written consent if the patient is a minor) that this discussion has taken place. For years, the army followed the “pill for every ill” method in treating pain. MORE
The National Business Group on Health recommended that employers discuss opioid use for pain management with their health plans and pharmacy benefit managers MORE
released a public health advisory today urging more Americans to carry naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose; the head of the Food and Drug Administration says the time may have come to require mandatory drug prescription and pain management training for physicians who prescribe opioids, plus more physician practice news from around the web Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, M.D., MORE
VR headsets offer new mediums for therapy and pain management. Improved Pain Management and Rehabilitation. The audio-visual fidelity of VR-assisted telehealth is also useful in the management of pain for WC patients. Since at least the 1950s, virtual reality (VR) has been floated as one of the next big things in consumer and business tech. MORE
Sixty percent of patients would be willing to see a doctor via remote visit for a chronic condition like heart disease or diabetes, opening up opportunities for other chronic health specialties, like pain management ( American Well ). If you are working in telemedicine, you should be aware of the latest data supporting this method of healthcare delivery. MORE
As a safe and nonpharmacological form of treatment, physical therapy (PT) has the potential to become one of the many risk-free alternatives to opioid-based pain management regimens MORE
Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Altspace VR Amazon AppliedVR Boston Children's Hospital Cedars-Sinai Global Healthcare VR Market Google Healthcare Virtual Reality Healthcare VR Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital VR Microsoft Samsung UC San Francisco VR Pain Management VR PTSD MORE
WellBrain, a Bay Area meditation-focused addiction prevention and chronic pain management platform, announced yesterday that it has acquired Mevoked, a behavioral analytics platform that currently offers a digital program for management of perinatal and postpartum mental health conditions. MORE
A company that operates several pain management practices in Virginia agreed to pay approximately $3.3 million to settle civil fraud allegations MORE
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning to eliminate a set of questions on pain management from its nationwide patient experience survey, just months after rolling out updates to the questions MORE
I brainstormed retail health yesterday with Patrick Freuler, CEO of Audicus (developer of hearing aids sold direct-to-consumer over-the-counter) and Shai Gozani, CEO of NeuroMetrix, maker of the Quell device for pain management. million customers in Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia each year, who can enroll into the Dario program and receive diabetes education through a mobile app, and earn rewards as people manage the condition. MORE
A federal task force is calling for a far more individualized approach to pain management in the wake of the opioid epidemic MORE
According to a paper titled Pain Management in the Elderly Population: A Review published in The Ochsner Journal in 2010, pain may be underreported because some elderly patients incorrectly believe that pain is a normal process of aging. However, assessing pain levels is usually not straightforward – it can be subjective and inaccurate MORE
219 One of the more widely accepted solutions to this epidemic is providing access to alternate forms of pain management, which is where MMJ BioScience’s innovative new FDA cannabis drug development comes into play. More forms of technology are being developed every day to treat patients suffering from chronic pain, and to remedy those that may be struggling with an opioid addiction. This is often used in the treatment of chronic pain in order to achieve long-term results. MORE
A pain-management physician from Maryland and a Detroit-area podiatrist have been sentenced to prison in two separate cases of healthcare fraud and more physician practice news MORE
Federal lawmakers are taking a hard look at how the VA protects patient data shared with VA-approved health apps. They want more answers about how VA monitors apps with access to health data and how it holds third parties accountable MORE
Cleveland, Ohio-based SPR Therapeutics announced today that it has received FDA clearance for a new version of its percutaneous, wearable pain management device MORE
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The 29-member Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force released its final report Thursday offering guidance for physicians seeking to appropriately address pain among their patients while attempting to curb the number of opioids prescribed MORE
You’ve discussed it in strategy meetings, you’ve overheard your competitors talking about it at conferences, and maybe patients have even asked about it: telemedicine. Why do you need it in your organization? For one, a Cisco global survey found that 74% of patients are interested in access to virtual healthcare services. There is a simple reason why: telemedicine simultaneously improves patient experience and makes healthcare providers more efficient. MORE
A doctor who ran a pain management medical practice has been charged with allegedly taking bribes and kickbacks to prescribe fentanyl to patients. Kenneth Sun, M.D., who operated clinics in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was charged with taking more than $140,000 in bribes and kickbacks from the Arizona-based pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics in exchange for prescribing the opioid Subsys, according to the Department of Justice MORE
Because of the increasing number of patients who turn to opioids for pain treatment, many researchers and clinicians have been searching for other alternatives. If you often find yourself taking pain medication, you’ve come to […]. The article New Technologies For Pain Management appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Jude Medical technologies for pain reliefThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. MORE
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. MORE
As opioid abuse continues to make impact in the US, more and more tech-driven answers to the drug crisis are springing up that aim to reduce patients’ reliance on prescription opioids MORE
The company formerly focused its efforts on enabling chronic pain management care MORE
Chronic pain patients don’t fare much better taking opioids to manage their pain than they do by taking placebos, a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. For the study researchers conducted 96 clinical trials, and 26,169 patients with noncancer chronic pain patients received the placebo. The post Study: Opioids Have Little Benefit in Long-term Pain Management appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions. MORE
Even if you’re fresh out of school and enthusiastic about your career ahead, it’s important to check in with yourself and practice stress management on an ongoing basis to fend off the dire outcomes of burnout - depression or worse. 8 Stress Management Tips for Physicians and NPs If you find yourself falling into an unhealthy mindset, the following ideas could be great ways to relieve stress and even help prevent physician burnout. MORE
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JULY 23, 2020
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.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 17, 2020
Because of the increasing number of patients who turn to opioids for pain treatment, many researchers and clinicians have been searching for other alternatives. If you often find yourself taking pain medication, you’ve come to […]. The article New Technologies For Pain Management appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Jude Medical technologies for pain reliefThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.
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Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 7, 2018
Consider the patient and family perspective in making choices about pain management and opioid use CDS. The clinical visit for patients and caregivers represents a drop in the ocean of their health management. In 2018 we are supporting clinical care related to pain management and opioid use. Patients and Clinicians Manage Pain Together. While there are 46 words for snow in Iceland, English has far fewer synonyms for physical pain (e.g.,
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 14, 2019
Positive data from the pragmatic study is the clearest evidence yet that in-hospital therapeutic VR could be effective in a live deployment, according to researchers
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 16, 2018
WellBrain, a Bay Area meditation-focused addiction prevention and chronic pain management platform, announced yesterday that it has acquired Mevoked, a behavioral analytics platform that currently offers a digital program for management of perinatal and postpartum mental health conditions.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 2, 2019
A federal task force is calling for a far more individualized approach to pain management in the wake of the opioid epidemic
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2019
The 29-member Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force released its final report Thursday offering guidance for physicians seeking to appropriately address pain among their patients while attempting to curb the number of opioids prescribed
FierceHealthIT
JULY 3, 2018
While the government and insurers are taking steps to curb opioid prescriptions and enhance treatments, nonmedication pain management needs to be pumped up as well to stop the problem at its core, executives at Amercian Specialty Health told FierceHealthcare
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
As opioid abuse continues to make impact in the US, more and more tech-driven answers to the drug crisis are springing up that aim to reduce patients’ reliance on prescription opioids
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 22, 2019
As a safe and nonpharmacological form of treatment, physical therapy (PT) has the potential to become one of the many risk-free alternatives to opioid-based pain management regimens
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 25, 2019
A company that operates several pain management practices in Virginia agreed to pay approximately $3.3 million to settle civil fraud allegations
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Federal lawmakers are taking a hard look at how the VA protects patient data shared with VA-approved health apps. They want more answers about how VA monitors apps with access to health data and how it holds third parties accountable
BHM Healthcare Solutions
DECEMBER 21, 2018
Chronic pain patients don’t fare much better taking opioids to manage their pain than they do by taking placebos, a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. For the study researchers conducted 96 clinical trials, and 26,169 patients with noncancer chronic pain patients received the placebo. The post Study: Opioids Have Little Benefit in Long-term Pain Management appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning to eliminate a set of questions on pain management from its nationwide patient experience survey, just months after rolling out updates to the questions
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Altspace VR Amazon AppliedVR Boston Children's Hospital Cedars-Sinai Global Healthcare VR Market Google Healthcare Virtual Reality Healthcare VR Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital VR Microsoft Samsung UC San Francisco VR Pain Management VR PTSD
Mobi Health News
MARCH 2, 2020
The company formerly focused its efforts on enabling chronic pain management care
eVisit
JANUARY 11, 2019
You’ve discussed it in strategy meetings, you’ve overheard your competitors talking about it at conferences, and maybe patients have even asked about it: telemedicine. Why do you need it in your organization? For one, a Cisco global survey found that 74% of patients are interested in access to virtual healthcare services. There is a simple reason why: telemedicine simultaneously improves patient experience and makes healthcare providers more efficient.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 16, 2018
Cleveland, Ohio-based SPR Therapeutics announced today that it has received FDA clearance for a new version of its percutaneous, wearable pain management device
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
According to a paper titled Pain Management in the Elderly Population: A Review published in The Ochsner Journal in 2010, pain may be underreported because some elderly patients incorrectly believe that pain is a normal process of aging. However, assessing pain levels is usually not straightforward – it can be subjective and inaccurate
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
A pain-management physician from Maryland and a Detroit-area podiatrist have been sentenced to prison in two separate cases of healthcare fraud and more physician practice news
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 1, 2018
He called for accelerating the translation of nonaddictive pain management strategies Francis Collins, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, discussed details of the NIH's new Helping to End Addiction Long-term initiative, which was launched in April.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
The National Business Group on Health recommended that employers discuss opioid use for pain management with their health plans and pharmacy benefit managers
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 26, 2019
A doctor who ran a pain management medical practice has been charged with allegedly taking bribes and kickbacks to prescribe fentanyl to patients. Kenneth Sun, M.D., who operated clinics in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was charged with taking more than $140,000 in bribes and kickbacks from the Arizona-based pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics in exchange for prescribing the opioid Subsys, according to the Department of Justice
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Florida-based Korunda Medical, which offers primary care and interventional pain management services, has agreed to pay the OCR $85,000 […]. For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly and within fee guidelines as required by HIPAA.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Karuna Labs, creator of personalized functional restoration and chronic pain management programs using Virtual Reality (VR) technology to retrain the brain, today announces $3 million in seed funding, led by Baseline Ventures, with investments from Anorak Ventures, the AET Fund, the Hustle Fund, Correlation Ventures, and Dreamit Ventures.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 5, 2018
released a public health advisory today urging more Americans to carry naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose; the head of the Food and Drug Administration says the time may have come to require mandatory drug prescription and pain management training for physicians who prescribe opioids, plus more physician practice news from around the web Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, M.D.,
InTouch Health
AUGUST 27, 2019
As more patients struggle with pain management and addiction recovery, many health organizations are looking at telehealth as a possible solution to the opioid crisis. If a patient struggling with addiction reaches out to their primary care provider or a physician for pain management or addiction recovery services, providers can use live video and audio to connect and collaborate with substance abuse experts. Improving Pain Management.
Duane Boise
JANUARY 24, 2018
One of the more widely accepted solutions to this epidemic is providing access to alternate forms of pain management, which is where MMJ BioScience’s innovative new FDA cannabis drug development comes into play. More forms of technology are being developed every day to treat patients suffering from chronic pain, and to remedy those that may be struggling with an opioid addiction. This is often used in the treatment of chronic pain in order to achieve long-term results.
Continue Education Journal
JUNE 18, 2019
The epidemic has been traced back mainly to doctors legally administering high doses of powerful pain medication, such as oxycontin. AB 888 would also require the prescriber to refer a patient to non-pharmaceutical methods of pain treatment, and have a patient’s written consent (or a parent/guardian’s written consent if the patient is a minor) that this discussion has taken place. For years, the army followed the “pill for every ill” method in treating pain.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 11, 2018
I brainstormed retail health yesterday with Patrick Freuler, CEO of Audicus (developer of hearing aids sold direct-to-consumer over-the-counter) and Shai Gozani, CEO of NeuroMetrix, maker of the Quell device for pain management. million customers in Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia each year, who can enroll into the Dario program and receive diabetes education through a mobile app, and earn rewards as people manage the condition.
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2018
wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. While the country has done a great job at addressing and preventing deaths due to heart disease and cancer, this trend of alcohol, drug and suicide mortality has reversed the positive gains made in the nation…indeed, a Nation in Pain. The Trust detailed a National Resilience Strategy in 2017 with elements of: Improving pain management and treatment.
Digital Health Today
MAY 2, 2019
Those guests, who all happened to be doctors leading in the field, spoke about their work across a wide variety of use cases, such as patient education, treating mental health condition, pain management, surgical training and actual live surgery. Their products focus on motor, cognitive, physical, psychological, postural ability and pain assessment and treatment. How a former F-16 fighter pilot is flying high with new FDA and CE-registered medical applications using VR.
Society for Participatory Medicine
JUNE 6, 2020
I have just finished co-teaching a month-long elective on the topic of pain to a group of rising 4th year medical students. In collaboratively planning the curriculum with my colleagues, we included the necessary “test-worthy” facts about pain management, but given the current climate of fear and uncertainty of the global pandemic, we also left space for exploring the broader experience of fear, pain and suffering.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 24, 2019
We were guided on how to cope with these remote processes where we were not present to manage or experience. And for the care recipients being managed, they were unable to communicate problems in their on-site, 'real' experience. Now there are training programs , VR initiatives for pain management , remote diagnostics , and more VR headset vendors.
Enzyme Health
JULY 31, 2019
Sixty percent of patients would be willing to see a doctor via remote visit for a chronic condition like heart disease or diabetes, opening up opportunities for other chronic health specialties, like pain management ( American Well ). If you are working in telemedicine, you should be aware of the latest data supporting this method of healthcare delivery.
Advanced Medical Reviews
MAY 15, 2018
VR headsets offer new mediums for therapy and pain management. Improved Pain Management and Rehabilitation. The audio-visual fidelity of VR-assisted telehealth is also useful in the management of pain for WC patients. Since at least the 1950s, virtual reality (VR) has been floated as one of the next big things in consumer and business tech.
InTouch Health
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
It also allowed the patient’s home to be classified as an originating site for telehealth delivery and created coverage and payment parity for the Medicaid, Medicaid managed care organizations, and commercial health plans. This new legislation will help those struggling with addiction access the care they need, in addition to pain management services, mental health services, and suicide prevention. A Prime Example of the Future of Telehealth Legislation.
Advanced Medical Reviews
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
FDA Approves New Opioid to Help Manage Acute Pain With High Regulations. At the end of 2018, the FDA authorized a new opioid to help manage acute pain called Dsuvia. Dsuvia can be administered to patients under the tongue for pain management, instead of requiring doctors to rely on intravenous routes for pain-relieving drugs like morphine. soldiers suffering from pain on the battlefield, where it can be given to patients quickly and easily.
The cHealth Blog
JUNE 6, 2019
While I focus on the programming with DeAnna Grosbaum and Janna Guinen, our colleague Mary Sheridan manages the myriad logistics and planning that go into a three-day event, along with a cadre of marketing, social media and event logistics gurus from HIMSS. ePal Pain Management App. We’re in full-scale planning mode for the 2019 Connected Health Conference and I am once again honored to be Program Chair. Our initial two tasks are complete.
Enzyme Health
MARCH 6, 2019
Even if you’re fresh out of school and enthusiastic about your career ahead, it’s important to check in with yourself and practice stress management on an ongoing basis to fend off the dire outcomes of burnout - depression or worse. 8 Stress Management Tips for Physicians and NPs If you find yourself falling into an unhealthy mindset, the following ideas could be great ways to relieve stress and even help prevent physician burnout.
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