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Initiating Medication-assisted Treatment for Patients Presenting With Opioid Withdrawal
With a new report showing dramatic surges in both ED visits and hospital admissions because of problems related to opioid misuse, it’s clear that current approaches to the problem are not sufficient.
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Look to Social Determinants of Health When Building Post-acute Ties in ACOs
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that involve case management in the entire care continuum often build post-acute care relationships to help their teams find solutions to patients’ social determinants of health issues.
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Opioid Overutilization Management Program Paves Way for Success
Healthcare organizations could learn a great deal about developing an opioid management program by following some of the best practices created as a result of the federal Medicare mandate for health plan sponsors.
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Pain Management in Workers’ Comp Has Evolved to a Holistic Approach
Psychosocial aspects of chronic pain are much better understood today than a generation ago. What healthcare organizations now know is that each person’s pain after an injury or surgery is different.
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Case Management’s Role in Curbing Opioid Epidemic Increases
Opioid addiction resulted in more than 33,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2015, making drug overdose the No. 1 cause of accidental death in the nation. The overdose death rate has quadrupled since the 1990s, as have sales of prescription painkillers, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
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Health System Included PHI in Press Release, OCR Says
Memorial Hermann Health System has agreed to pay $2.4 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and adopt a corrective action plan to settle potential HIPAA violations related to claims it included a patient’s protected health information in a press release.
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Health Promotion Advocate Extends Benefits Offered to Adolescents, Young Adults
With all they have on their plates, emergency personnel generally are not enthusiastic about taking on new preventive health initiatives, but a unique program that aims to identify and respond to risky and unsafe behaviors in adolescents and young adults who present to the ED has won over both providers and staff at Boston Medical Center.
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Technology Increasingly Helps Case Managers Engage With Patients
Technology helps case management programs improve efficiency and become faster at reacting to patient problems or anticipating issues before they occur.
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Worker at Candle Factory Loses Hand, but Returns to Work With Case Management Help
A case manager shares her experience helping an injured worker recover and find a way to get back on the job.
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Case Management Is Essential in Handling Catastrophic Injuries
Case managers assigned to patients who have suffered catastrophic injuries can make a huge difference in patients’ outcomes and ability to return to work.