While solving the opioid epidemic is a long-lead mission, now compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic, we can continue to make progress by implementing the right technological tools to help address underlying issues associated with behavioral health.
Unlike in the United States, where these pills are commonly dispensed after surgeries and medical procedures, opioids have never emerged as a front-line medical treatment in Germany.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The proposed revisions to protect privacy of substance-abuse patients such as opioid users are a step in the right direction and present solid ideas for improved information sharing. But the proposed changes don’t go far enough to ensure providers have access to all the information they need in the moment they’re making life-changing decisions.
Citing unnamed sources, news outlets reported that Purdue would be dissolved to create a new company that would sell OxyContin and use proceeds to pay plaintiffs in more than 2,000 lawsuits filed by governments nationwide.
Shares of the company fell 40 percent Thursday following a story late Wednesday afternoon by Bloomberg, which reported that a bankruptcy filing was a potential option.
With tens of thousands of American lives lost each year to drug overdose, it’s critical that we begin training Americans to administer Narcan (naloxone), just as we did with CPR, to help save the lives of our neighbors, family members and friends.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
American pharma companies — architects of the opioid crisis in the United States and avid hunters of new markets — stand at the ready to feed and fuel demand for painkillers in India where attitudes toward pain toleration have changed.
Trump officials argue that current regulation has not kept up with the times and the necessity of coordinated approaches to addressing the opioid epidemic.
Last week, the company announced a $225 million settlement with the Department of Justice for civil and criminal investigations into illegal promotion of the cancer pain drug Subsys.
Through a program called Pathways to Recovery, the health system is enabling clinicians in its emergency departments to provide interventions that can help patients get on the path to recovery.
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
DynamiCare's approach is based on a behavioral therapy called Contingency Management, which uses positive reinforcement to change behavior
With the new funding, MAP Health Management is hoping to more than double the states it operates in and move upstream to other sites of care to help treat substance abuse before it worsens.
Healthcare practitioners will integrate new medtech tools into clinical practice and create more effective and safe procedures globally, but doing so successfully requires the medtech industry to address certain acute healthcare issues.
The reSET-O prescription mobile application is directed at supporting patients using buprenorphine as a medicinal aid in treatment to overcome opioid addiction.
Earlier this year the FDA launched an innovation challenge to help promote and speed-up the development of devices and therapies intended to prevent and treat opioid use disorder.