by priyatham | Oct 22, 2017 | Prescription Advisory Blog
Medscape’s Robert Lowes recently published an article detailing opioids’ prominent role in medication malpractice claims. Much of the press around the opioid crisis covers the deaths, hospitalizations, and substance use disorder problems. All of these can...
by priyatham | Oct 22, 2017 | Featured News
Opioid analgesics have a way of getting physicians as well as patients into trouble. These painkillers account for more medical-malpractice claims related to drug errors than any other drug class, according to a new study released today by the medical liability...
by priyatham | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured News
Jenkintown, PA – August 22, 2017 – PastRx, a clinical decision support service that’s fight substance abuse, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc. through athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program. As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace,...
by priyatham | Jun 26, 2017 | Featured News
Patients with opioid use disorder are much more likely than the general population to have a host of other health conditions, including hepatitis C, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety. That’s according to a new analysis from health care company Amino, which...
by priyatham | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
The AMA recently reported that PDMP checks rose to 136m last year, and that’s a step in the right direction. But, using recent annual data, we had more than 900m patient encounters and over 4 billion prescriptions were filled. Even if we assume all 136m checks...
by priyatham | Jun 20, 2017 | Featured News
Use of prescription drug-monitoring programs (PDMPs) has increased significantly in recent years, but information gaps remain, a problem that new AMA policy adopted at the 2017 AMA Annual Meeting seeks to address. … “Use will go up when they become more useful...
by priyatham | Jun 15, 2017 | Featured News
As the nation’s opioid crisis worsens, the authorities are confronting a resurgent, unruly player in the illicit trade of the deadly drugs, one that threatens to be even more formidable than the cartels. The internet. In a growing number of arrests and overdoses, law...
by priyatham | Jun 13, 2017 | Featured News
Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data compiled by The New York Times. The death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis: opioid...
by priyatham | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured News
Beginning Saturday, April 1, all practitioners who prescribe controlled substances will be required to use the Wisconsin enhanced Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (WI ePDMP). This latest requirement comes from 2015 Act 266, which is a piece of the Heroin, Opioid,...
by priyatham | Mar 27, 2017 | Featured News
The number of Ohio babies who come into the world sick and craving drugs continues to soar. New state reports show that the rate of neonatal abstinence syndrome — the medical term for withdrawal symptoms suffered by newborns — jumped to 159 per 10,000 live births in...