The editorial "The DEA's Misguided War on Opioids" published in The New York Times offers a poignant critique of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) approach to regulating opioids in the United States. Authored by Dr. Shravani Durbhakula, a pain management and anesthesiology physician, the
How Patient Premier’s Pain Scored is Helping Address the Misuse of Pain Management Drugs
The opiate epidemic has reached alarming proportions in the United States, posing a significant threat to public health and well-being. The over-prescription of opioids has led to a crisis of addiction and devastating consequences for countless individuals and communities. According to recent data
What Healthcare Providers Can Do to Battle the Opioid Crisis
Health providers have been prescribing opioids as a medication for pain for years, but an ongoing epidemic is putting healthcare workers at odds with these medicines. Though pharmaceutical companies have claimed that patients won’t become addicted to opioid pain relievers, the National Institute on
Remote Care Strategies
A New Alphabet Soup of Codes can Improve Outcomes and Opportunities Remote Care is a key component in the future of medical care. When the goal of patient care is improved quality of life, doctors need to measure how patients do between visits - in their day-to-day lives. This is particularly
Remote Care can Help Solve Socioeconomic Disparities in Healthcare
There is an ongoing national discussion about systemic disadvantage due to socioeconomic and racial factors. The problem is huge and solutions equally difficult. Reasonable individuals may feel overwhelmed and choose to ignore the problem or minimize it. As physicians and medical professionals,
Remote Care – Reflections on One Year as a Corporation in a Transformative Industry
Amar Setty, MD As we pass a year of incorporation at Patient Premier, I’d like to reflect on the state of remote care and its transformative future. At Patient Premier, we started with the simple idea of connecting with our patients between office visits - to leverage the powerful tools we all
Criminalizing Good Medical Care
The Opioid Crisis and How to Safely Practice Much has been written about the opioid crisis. It's a difficult social and medical problem which conflates medical pain management with destructive addiction. Inevitably, the societal blame for this complex, multi-factorial problem falls on
With Opioid Use on the Rise, MedChi Looks at Alternative Pain Management Solutions
The American Medical Association (AMA) has called on Maryland as well as 40 other states to address the increase in opioid overdoses as the national numbers have reported an uptick as compared to last year. In a news release, the AMA wrote that the majority of the country is experiencing “increases