PatientPoint®, the trusted leader of patient and physician engagement solutions across all points of care, today announced a collaboration with national addiction prevention, treatment and recovery nonprofit Shatterproof to place opioid education in nearly 25,000 physician offices across the country. This program, the first national point-of-care initiative of its kind, will reach an estimated 15 million patients and caregivers each month and up to 200 million annually.
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After Years Of Use, Dangers Of Opioid Drugs Discovered
Staff Writer | Statesman.com | September 29, 2012
Two-thirds of the Texas Iraq and Afghanistan veterans the American-Statesman identified as dying of overdoses had powerful prescription painkillers in their systems, according to autopsies and medical examiner reports. Read More »
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Drugs Are Killing So Many People in Ohio That Cold-Storage Trailers Are Being Used as Morgues
Kristine Phillips | The Washington Post | March 16, 2017
By about 3 p.m. Friday, a county morgue in east Ohio was already full — and more bodies were expected. Rick Walters, an investigator for the Stark County coroner's office, had just left for two death scenes: a suicide and an overdose. From the road, he called the director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency to ask for help. He needed more space, he explained — specifically, a cold-storage trailer to act as an overflow morgue...
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Heroin Taking Oxy's Place For More Addicts
Nicole Brochu | Sun Sentinel | February 19, 2013
The state's war on pill mills is making an impact, but there's a troubling byproduct: a surge in the number of people now hooked on heroin. Read More »
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New Wave Of Heroin Claims Hoffman And Others
Staff Writer | Washington Post | February 4, 2014
Heroin was supposed to be an obsolete evil, a blurry memory of a dangerous drug that dwelled in some dark recess of American culture.But smack never really disappeared. It comes in waves, and one such swell is cresting across the nation, sparking widespread worry among government officials and driving up overdose deaths — including, it appears, that of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Read More »
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Opioid Epidemic Makes EHRs Essential to Public Health
By Irv Lichtenwald | August 10, 2017
When public health is threatened by an outbreak of SARS or Zika or avian influenza, widely disseminated information becomes a crucial tool used to curtail the spread of disease. But transmittable diseases are not the lone threats to public health. Other metaphorically pathogenic events—the current opioid epidemic, for example—are more effectively managed by making sure doctors have complete information when evaluating patients and, especially, writing prescriptions.
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PatientPoint and Shatterproof Launch National Point-of-Care Education Initiative to Fight Opioid Epidemic
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PatientPoint, Shatterproof |
October 3, 2017
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Points To Broader Opioid Drug Epidemic
Joel Achenbach | Washington Post | February 7, 2014
The death last Sunday of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at age 46 focused media attention on the nationwide surge in heroin use and overdoses. But the very real heroin epidemic is framed by an even more dramatic increase since the beginning of the century in overdoses from pharmaceutical drugs known as opioids. Read More »
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Revealed: Google AI Has Access to Huge Haul of NHS Patient Data
Hal Hodson | New Scientist | April 29, 2016
It’s no secret that Google has broad ambitions in healthcare. But a document obtained by New Scientist reveals that the tech giant’s collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service goes far beyond what has been publicly announced. The document – a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust – gives theclearest picture yet of what the company is doing and what sensitive data it now has access to...
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Texas Vets Dying Young At Alarming Rate
Barrett Welch and Leesha Faulkner | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal | September 30, 2012
A six-month investigation by the Austin American-Statesman of Texas’ Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who died after leaving the military found that an alarmingly high percentage died from prescription drug overdoses, toxic drug combinations, suicide and single-car crashes — a largely unseen pattern of early death that federal authorities are failing to adequately track. Read More »
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