By David Simon, Ph.D., Research Data Scientist Predicting a patient’s risk for adverse outcomes is an important part of delivering personalized care and improving the lives of patients. In order to achieve these goals, axialHealthcare has developed a number of machine learning models that quantify patient risk. An exciting example is our machine learning model …
“We want to make sure that as we deal with the opioid crisis, we keep in mind those Americans who are hurting.” This statement was made by Senate Health Committee Chairman Senator Lamar Alexander during this week’s Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee Hearing amidst increasing public discussion of the impact of the opioid …
By Meridith Peratikos, Director of Enterprise Research In January, researchers and technologists across a wide range of disciplines and job sectors converged at the RStudio::conf 2019 in Austin, Texas to celebrate and learn about R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics, as well as discuss RStudio tools that make using R for business …
By Lindsey Morris, Ph.D., Director of Data Science and Analytics Sin City beckons tens of thousands of technology leaders from around the world to Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) re:Invent, a quintessential, annual technology conference where AWS reveals it’s cutting-edge technology offerings for the coming year. The advancements are always presented during keynote addresses in a minimalistic yet …
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By May Shen, Ph.D., Research Data Scientist Machine learning models are being quickly adopted in various industry applications because of their outstanding performance compared to more traditional approaches like linear regression. However, machine learning models are also known as ‘black boxes’ because they provide little explanations for their predictions. The black-box nature of many machine learning …
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At axialHealthcare, our pain and opioid care solutions are based in and continually updated with the latest peer-reviewed evidence. In order to maintain the highest standards for our products, and the patient care they support, our experts sort through thousands of publications each year. Adding more than 100 publications to our compendium this year, we’ve …
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By Louis J Czaja, PharmD, BCGP, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist As America’s opioid epidemic continues to escalate, the discussion surrounding legalizing medical marijuana has been widely considered as a means to combat it. Currently, marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States, with 40 million people 12 years of age or older reporting …
By Amber Watson, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Scientific Writer The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health (SDOH) as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.” Examples of SDOH include economic stability, education, and social support. As the health system moves away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward value-based care reimbursement, …
For the past 18 months, the Trump Administration and Congress have been working feverishly to continue the fight against the nation’s opioid epidemic, and the House has spent the last several weeks discussing more than 50 bills, all of which focus on advancing treatment and recovery initiatives, improving prevention, protecting communities, and bolstering efforts to …
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Despite a decrease in opioid prescribing, there were X opioid overdose deaths in 2017. A recent industry study estimated that the total added costs to the healthcare system for patients who overdose on opioids was $11.3 billion annually, with $7.4 billion of the expense shouldered by Medicaid and Medicare programs. The study focused on 100,000 …
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