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
Business Innovators Radio Show
Interview with Dr. Amar Setty Co-Founder of Patient Premier Listen to "Interview with Dr. Amar Setty Co-Founder of Patient Premier Featuring PainScored" on Spreaker. Dr. Amar Setty is a physician entrepreneur. He did his training in Anesthesiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since
How Has Covid-19 Impacted Practices?
Dr. Christopher Burton recently asked a number of physicians in a variety of practices how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted them. He received a lot of feedback and compiled an article that covers the trends we are seeing, including what some physicians are doing differently to thrive while so
The PainExam Podcast
Interview with Dr. Bryan Marascalchi Co-Founder of Patient Premier Check out our latest podcast with David Rosenblum of PainExam where Dr. Bryan Marascalchi discuss PainScored.com - a better tool for the collection of actionable data for shared decision making. Pain Scored, Patient
The Future of Pain Management – Pain Scored
The pain diary is a standard, but basically useless, way of managing pain. We started our app, Pain Scored, with a simple premise: if we make the pain diary easy to use daily and help people see their own data, they make better decision. When given the proper tools, managed by a physician, their
Amar Setty: Nation needs a ‘moonshot’ on solving opioid problems
When President Donald Trump declared opioid abuse a public health emergency last October, it was unclear if this announcement would become a defining moment in ending our nation’s worst-ever drug epidemic. As the Charleston Gazette-Mail‘s Pulitzer-Prize winning reporting revealed, West Virginia
The War on Opioids!
Many of our patients and readers have been asking about the "War on Opioids". Clinics and practices are being shut down and called "pill mills". At the same time, well meaning physicians are afraid to prescribe opioids for fear of getting into trouble... and patients are caught in the middle. I