by admin | Dec 2, 2018 | Board, Electronic Health Records, Health Data, HSR, Public Health
We are proud to announce that HSR Board Member, John R Zaleski, PhD has recently published a chapter, titled Big Data for Predictive Analytics in High Acuity Health Settingsin the technical publication Big Data for the Greater Good. The chapter discusses the many and...
by admin | Dec 1, 2018 | Arab Health, Data Analytics, GIS, Health IT, HSR, Public Health
We are proud to announce that we’ve been invited to join the State of Maryland’s official delegation to the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress 2019,taking place from January 28th – 31st, 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Center in the United Arab Emirates....
by admin | Oct 5, 2018 | Health Policy, Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Public Health
Congressional Quarterly reports an 18% reduction in opioid use among Medicare patients in recent years1. This is certainly movement in the right direction – especially considering prescriptions to this population have long been considered a source of diverted opioids....
by admin | Feb 12, 2018 | Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Pain Management, Public Health
Purdue Pharma LP has announced an end to its practice of pressuring physicians to write prescriptions of OxyContin – a market leading opioid pain killer. Purdue’s move, as reported in Friday’s Wall Street Journal article, “Purdue Pharma to Stop Promoting OxyContin to...
by admin | Jan 24, 2018 | Clinical Trials, Crowd Funding, Golf, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Public Health
Webster’s dictionary defines Epidemic as “a sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon.” That is exactly what the we are experiencing with opioids. HSR has taken on this battle in many ways and now we have launched a grassroots campaign to...
by admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Health Policy, Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Pain Management, Public Health
Last week, CVS Health announced it will limit the duration and dosage of opioid pain killers to certain individuals. HSR commends CVS Health for taking action towards addressing the Opioid Crisis in the United States. However, we caution that simply limiting access to...
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