Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, Improving Population Health
Using Data to Reduce and Predict Prescription Drug Fraud Researchers have developed a powerful analytical tool to predict and identify prescription drug fraud schemes involving patients, prescribers, and pharmacies. Read the article Please leave this field emptySign...
Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, Improving Population Health
Emergency room physicians look for solutions to curb opioid overdoses Emergency room physicians are learning that taking the time to explain to patients why prescribing them an opioid is not the best solution doesn’t increase the length of time patients spend in...
Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, High Quality Data, Improving Population Health, Increased Access
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program The CDC estimates that more than 16,500 people die each year from overdoses involving prescription painkillers. Drug overdoses recently surpassed car crashes as a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Read the...
Feb 2, 2018 | Combating the Opioid Epidemic, Improving Population Health
Harnessing data to get ahead of a public health crisis Routine visits to the pharmacy took on new meaning—personally and professionally—for MITRE’s Jaya Tripathi in 2010. The analytics expert was helping a family member recover from a skiing accident and had to...
Feb 2, 2018 | Creating a Learning Health System, High Quality Data, Improving the Patient Experience, Increased Access
The Pathway to Patient Data Ownership and Better Health Patients are becoming more active in their own healthcare. Researchers are looking at what systems need to be created to capture patient-generated data and how it could be interoperable with clinical data to...
