Opioids
Parkview Health is working to develop a mobile app that would serve as an intervention for Indianans struggling with opioid-related substance use disorders. Parkview’s project received first place in this year’s AHA Innovation Challenge. Read more and watch a video.
Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: the county that’s leading the nation in reversing opioid overdose deaths, and meth-related overdoses are on the rise.
Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: the county that’s leading the nation in reversing opioid overdose deaths, and meth-related overdoses are on the rise.
Health care providers and others can apply through Jan. 15 for planning grants to prevent and reduce opioid use disorder in high-risk rural counties through community partnerships, the Health Resources and Services Administration announced last week. HRSA’s Rural Communities Opioid Response Program…
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday warned the health care community about complications that arise when pairing pain medications with intrathecal implanted pumps when the medications are not approved for use with those devices, which deliver medicine into spinal fluid.
Outpatient opioid prescriptions for children have steadily declined since 2012, driven by fewer prescriptions for hydrocodone, according to a study reported online by JAMA Pediatrics.
Nearly 2.4 million Americans are living with Hepatitis C and the amount of new infections each year is “disturbingly high” and growing.
Project SHOUT (Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment): Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco, CA
Held November 13, 2018
Pre-Webinar Materials: Project SHOUT: Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment
Overview
In May 2014, the Ohio Governor’s Office of Health Transformation awarded MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland $395,170 in grant funding to reduce lengthy hospital stays and promote improved health outcomes for opiate-dependent mothers and their newborn babies. The funding was a part of…
Overview
Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is New Hampshire’s only academic medical center and is headquartered on a 225-acre campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley, in Lebanon, N.H. DHMC is New Hampshire’s only Level I trauma center, one of only three in northern New…