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axialHealthcare adds Chief Analytics Officer to Drive Organizational Strategy within Data and Analytics

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. axialHealthcare, a care optimization company focused on managing substance use and social determinants of health issues for patients, providers, and health plan partners, today announced the appointment of Adam Dunning as Chief Analytics Officer to shape and drive the company’s market differentiating insights, intelligence, and intellectual property.   “Adam is a high-quality addition to our team, and …

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2020 CB Insights Digital Health 150

CB Insights Recognizes axialHealthcare in 2020 Digital Health 150 Ranking

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Annual Ranking Recognizes the Most Innovative Digital Health Startups axialHealthcare has been named to the 2020 CB Insights Digital Health 150 ranking, which highlights the world’s most promising startups that are reimagining the lines of the traditional healthcare experience across 12 categories. Countries represented this year include Canada, China, Israel, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others.  …

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axial takeaway: R in Business

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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 …

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axial takeaway: The Importance of Knowing Your Data

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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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Unpacking the Machine Learning Black Box in Healthcare Applications

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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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2018 in Review: Impactful Literature on Pain & Opioids

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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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Medical Cannabis: Therapeutic Utility and Risks

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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 …

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axial takeaway: “It’s not just biology”

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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, …

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axialHealthcare Wins Nashville Entrepreneur Center NEXT Award

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We’re thrilled to announce that axialHealthcare was named the Healthcare Market Mover in the 2018 NEXT Awards, presented by the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Built on the belief that big ideas and the innovators behind them deserve to be celebrated, the NEXT Awards recognize Nashville’s top rebels, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and businesses. This is a very exciting …

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Recent Opioid Legislation: What it means for payers

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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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