A day after President Trump signed a massive piece of legislation responding to the opioid crisis into law, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it's pouring even more resources into its crackdown on prescribers. Speaking in D.C. at the DOJ's National Opioid Summit on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his agency was creating a new Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force to focus on communities "hit especially hard by addiction and opioid fraud." A...
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Achieving Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model is a tall order. It demands that hospitals have totally transcended the paper chart, are using data warehousing and advanced analytics, are able to share clinical information readily with an array of outside entities and are in strict compliance with a range of other exacting requirements for enterprise-wide IT deployment. It's worth the effort, as a new report from KLAS, done in cooperation with HIMSS Analytics, shows. Not just for...
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The 71-year-old man was diagnosed after a medical scan revealed amyloid protein clumps in his brain. Until now, it was believed that HIV-related inflammation in the brain might prevent the formation of such clumps and thereby protect these people from Alzheimer's...
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Port 305 Restaurant in Marina Bay and Mix 104.1’s Kennedy Elsey recently hosted a wine tasting benefit that raised more than $6,000 to assist South Shore Mental Health’s financially disadvantaged clients....
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX, -0.85% said Monday that it is expanding health-care benefits for all eligible part-time and full-time workers. A new online platform created with Aon PLC AON, -0.29% will offer as many as six carriers and five levels of coverage. Workers could save up to $800 annually by selecting a plan that better suits their needs, Starbucks said in a statement. Starbucks staffers will also have access to Healthcare Advocates to help choose a health care plan. The company will continue t...
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Chances are, there’s more than one person with your name. That similarity could be problematic when someone’s trying to friend you on Facebook or find you on LinkedIn. Even worse, it could result in a drastic complication when you visit the hospital....
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