Rick Dean, CEO at Bicycle Health
What You Should Know
The News: Bicycle Health, a leader in virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, has appointed Rick Dean (formerly of OncoHealth) as its new CEO.The Transition: Founder…
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The Drug Enforcement Administration extends telehealth flexibility in the prescribing of controlled substances through December 31, 2026.
This fourth extension came during the last hours of December 31 and took effect…
Jessica Wagner, COO at RXNT
According to recent CDC data, opioids remain the driving force behind the vast majority of U.S. drug overdose deaths. While prescription rates have declined over the past several years, opioid-related…
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Opioids are frequently overprescribed after surgery. We applied a tabular foundation model to predict the risk of post-discharge opioid consumption. The model was trained and internally validated on an 80:20 training/test split of the…
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Dan Cohen, President and Cofounder of Adhere+
The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed a rapid and necessary transformation in the delivery of healthcare services, especially for vulnerable populations with opioid use disorder (OUD). Regulatory flexibilities introduced during…
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What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring safety labeling changes to all opioid pain medications to better emphasize and explain the risks associated with their long-term use.
– The…
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We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers that are working to advance algorithmic fairness in the research of opioid use disorders. We discuss challenges that our research team faced when engaging with our Advisory…
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The opioid epidemic persists in the U.S., with over 80,000 deaths annually since 2021, primarily driven by synthetic opioids. Responding to this evolving epidemic requires reliable and timely information. One source of data is…
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The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) announced it is partnering with Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS), Duke University, Google Fitbit, Morse Clinics, North Carolina Central University, Ōura, ProofPilot, Triangle CERSI and the University of North…
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Background: Mobile health apps can serve as a critical tool in supporting the overall health of uninsured and underinsured individuals and groups who have been historically marginalized by the medical community and may be…
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