opioid crisis

In the first edition of the HIMSS TV Deep Dive series, doctors, civil servants and entrepreneurs share ways to treat and prevent overuse and addiction.

Dr. James Hellewell, medical director of Care Transformation Information Systems at Intermountain, says we need to look at other ways to treat patients’ pain without exposing them to high-risk medications.

Because telehealth tools enable faster access to care and help emergency clinicians make decisions at the bedside to reduce unnecessary admissions and length of stay, costs are being reduced, says Anton Arbatov, senior director SOC Telemed.

Prescription drug monitoring programs are forcing providers to put data into a state system for use in making informed care decisions, according to New Jersey state officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin.