Successful Speaking Events in Atlanta and Denver
Silvia Sacalis, PharmD, and VP of Clinical Services at Healthesystems, joined the panel presentation Lessons from Workers’ Comp: Mitigating Drug Therapy Risk and Reducing Opioid Use at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia on April 18th.
The panel discussed how the workers’ comp industry has been on the forefront of the opioid epidemic, going over strategies used in workers’ comp to reduce opioid use, such encouraging treatments that facilitate functional recovery instead of solely focusing on pain management, prior authorization on long-acting opioids, limiting initial opioid prescriptions to three-to-seven days, opioid agreements, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Furthermore, the panel presented a case study representing a patient type typically seen in workers’ comp, illustrating how certain factors (e.g., dangerous drug combinations, comorbidities and polypharmacy) put the patient at risk, as well as how stakeholders can mitigate this risk with a comprehensive understanding of a patient’s entire medical history
In addition to Dr. Sacalis, the panel featured Adam Seidner, MD, MPH, Global Medical Director, Travelers Insurance, and Joseph Paduda, MS, Principal, Health Strategy Associates
To download slides of the presentation, visit the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit website.
American Occupational Health Conference
Robert Goldberg, MD, FACOEM, and Chief Medical Officer at Healthesystems, joined Drug Formularies in Workers’ Compensation, a panel presentation at the American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC) in Denver, Colorado on April 24th.
This session described the general structure and operation of drug formularies, providing information on their use in several states, along with a practical introduction to currently available workers’ comp drug formularies.
The panel also featured Paul J. Papanek, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Cal/OSHA, Long Beach, CA, Alex Swedlow, MHSA, California Workers’ Compensation Institute, Oakland, CA
For more information, visit AOHC 2017’s information page.
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