CHIME Opioid Action Center Podcast
By CHIME Opioid Action Center
Learn more about the work of the task force by visiting opioidactioncenter.com/.
CHIME Opioid Action Center PodcastAug 17, 2022
Gravity Project: Developing Data Standards to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Gravity Project is an HL7 FHIR Accelerator, collaborative initiative with the goal to develop consensus-driven data standards to support the collection, use, and exchange of data to address the social determinants of health (SDOH). In 2023, Gravity Project was named in the White House “US Playbook to Address the Social Determinants of Health” and ONC’s HTI-1 final rule requiring adoption of USCDI v3 as the standard for certification by January 2016 includes the four Gravity curated SDOH elements. Listen to learn about how data standards can accelerate your work as Health IT professionals to support individuals and families impacted by the opioid crisis.
GUEST
Vanessa Candelora
Program Manager, Gravity Project
MODERATOR
Otto Reemelin
CIO, Southwest Human Development
Member of the CHIME OTF’s Technology and Interoperability subcommittee
What you'll learn about:
- What Gravity Project is and why it exists.
- How it's system agnostic and can be utilized in any EHR/system.
- Gravity Project's existing/current/upcoming work.
- What Gravity Project offers, and who can access it and how.
- Why it was created and what issues and problems it's addressing, with real world examples.
-How Gravity Project can help to reduce the trauma and stress for families of fragile infants seeking care from agencies in the community who specialize in neonatal abstinence syndrome, food insecurity, or housing instability.
-The top 3 takeaways everyone in healthcare IT should know so they can leverage the power of the Gravity Project.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Integration of FindHelp with Epic
Explore the leading-edge work of Virtua Health a comprehensive healthcare system in Southern New Jersey recognized by CHIME in 2023 as a “Most Wired” Level 10 health system, a top honor shared by only 19 U.S. hospitals/health systems. Join moderator Bill Spooner, a retired CIO and Co-chair of CHIME OTF’s Emerging Technology/Interoperability subcommittee, in this illuminating podcast episode. Discover how Virtua Health seamlessly embeds FindHelp into Epic, revolutionizing patient referrals for opioid treatment. Krista Lokan, IT Population Health Architect at Virtua Health, shares the challenges and triumphs of implementing this innovative tool, offering real-time access to vital resources. Learn how FindHelp streamlines patient care, eliminates manual processes, and fosters collaboration among healthcare entities. Gain insights into Virtua's success metrics and their regional efforts to combat substance abuse. Don't miss this insightful conversation on leveraging technology to drive meaningful change in opioid treatment.
Host: Bill Spooner
A mostly retired CIO and Co-chair of the CHIME OTF’s Technology and Interoperability subcommittee.
Guest: Krista Lokan
IT Population Health Architect, Virtua Health
What you'll learn about:
- Virtua Health, and how they received their Level 10 Most Wired certification in 2023, including for their technology implementations addressing opioids.
- What problems they were you facing, including for electronic referrals.
- What Findhelp is how it can benefit patients, clinicians, operations, and more.
- What tools FindHelp offers & how Virtua Health is utilizing them.
- How Virtua Health is measuring the impact of FindHelp in their community.
For more information from Krista reach out to her on LinkedIn.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Expanding Opioid-Free Pain Treatment Options
What you'll learn about:
- Why Dr. Baxter has focused her work and research on pain management.
- What prescribers can do to improve non-medication pain management options for pain control.
- Where the biggest opportunities are for reducing opioid use and how organizations like CHIME can help.
- What administrative IT and clinical IT leaders can do to ensure computerized systems improve the digital monitoring and ordering of both medications and non-medication pain treatment.
Host: Todd Rowland, MD, FAAPMR
Chief Medical Officer, Motiv
Chief Medical Officer, VitalFlo
CEO, Bridge2Medical
Attending Physician, Duke Hospitals
Dr. Todd Rowland has more than 25 years of healthcare experience which includes roles as practicing physician, CEO of health information exchange, CMIO (Chief Medical Information Officer), and most recently enterprise Senior Vice President and CIO. He has worked with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions using several IT platforms which include Allscripts, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, MEDITECH, Mirth, Optum, and other technologies.
Guest: Dr. Amy Baxter, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Augusta University
CEO, Pain Care Labs
Dr. Amy Baxter, MD is a researcher, physician, and recent TedTalk speaker with a focus around understanding the connections that send pain from your body to your brain. Her insights provide practical neuroscience hacks to quickly block those signals. Her leading edge research offers alternative opioid-free treatment options for immediate pain relief.
TEDTalk : How to Hack your Brain When You're in Pain, Dr. Amy Baxter, MD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SpaXqAQ4Wo
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Challenges Associated with Treating Addiction in a Corrections Environment
Host: Andy Smith, CFCHE
Co-CEO and Founder, Impact Advisors
Education Co-chair, CHIME Opioid Task Force
Guest: Gregg Dockins
Corrections Division President, Gateway Foundation, Inc.
An employee of Gateway Foundation, Inc. for over 23 years, Gregg is responsible for the administration, operational oversight, and strategic planning and growth of all Corrections Division services.
What you'll learn about:
- Gateway‘s initial approach to the opioid epidemic.
- How has technology has helped their care model.
- What obstacles they have faced around technology.
- What the future of addiction treatment may look like in the corrections setting for providers as well as individuals seeking treatment.
- What all healthcare professionals treating patients for addiction should take away from this conversation.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Ambulatory EHR Optimization for Private Practice vs Health Systems
Host: Patty Lavely, CIO Consultant and Co-chair, CHIME Opioid Task Force
Guest: Mike Burger, Senior Consultant, Point-of-Care Partners
What you'll learn about:
- High level overview of the ambulatory EHR landscape.
- If the standard software on the market today provides “opioid tools” to help providers manage patients that are taking opioids or are high risk for addiction/overdose.-
- Third-party software to improve the capabilities including PDMP integration.
- How it all fits (or doesn't) within the clinical workflows in the office.
- If EHRs are typically tied into community services to support patients with SUD.
- Technology differences between independent physician practices vs those owned by health systems/hospitals, and if there's a difference in how they're able to determine the patients at risk.
-Whether, like hospitals, physician practices have come a long way with reducing opioid prescriptions; and if the software has functionality to support changing ordering practices.
- The percentage of physician practices contributing data and viewing data via an HIE (in Mike's experience).
- What health IT leaders do to mitigate the challenges in utilizing the technology to assist with better opioid stewardship and managing patients at risk.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Interoperability and Data Sharing at the Speed of Trust Part 2 of 2
Part Two of a two-episode series focusing on interoperability, PDMPs (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs), HIEs (Health Information Exchanges) and telehealth through the lens of a PM&R (Pain Management & Rehabilitation) physician of 25-years.
HOST
Scott Weiner, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM
Emergency Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research, Bicycle Health
Scott G. Weiner, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Public Health in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Weiner completed his residency training at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and MPH degree at Harvard School of Public Health. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and addiction medicine.
He is the Director of B-CORE: The Brigham Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education Program, a hospital-wide, multi-disciplinary quality assurance program with the goal of reducing opioid-related morbidity and mortality. He is the co-lead of the American College of Emergency Physicians’ E-QUAL Opioid Initiative and serves on opioid task forces for several organizations, including NAM, AMA and CHIME. His current research, including multiple grant-funded projects from the NIH, focuses on prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder.
GUEST
Todd Rowland, MD, FAAPMR
Chief Medical Officer, Motiv
Chief Medical Officer, VitalFlo
CEO, Bridge2Medical
Attending Physician, Duke Hospitals
Dr. Todd Rowland has more than 25 years of healthcare experience which includes roles as practicing physician, CEO of health information exchange, CMIO (Chief Medical Information Officer), and most recently enterprise Senior Vice President and CIO. He has worked with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions using several IT platforms which include Allscripts, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, MEDITECH, Mirth, Optum, and other technologies.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Interoperability and Data Sharing at the Speed of Trust Part 1 of 2
Part One of a two-episode series focusing on interoperability, PDMPs (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs), HIEs (Health Information Exchanges) and telehealth through the lens of a PM&R (Pain Management & Rehabilitation) physician of 25-years.
HOST
Scott Weiner, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM
Emergency Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research, Bicycle Health
Scott G. Weiner, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Public Health in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Weiner completed his residency training at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and MPH degree at Harvard School of Public Health. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and addiction medicine.
He is the Director of B-CORE: The Brigham Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education Program, a hospital-wide, multi-disciplinary quality assurance program with the goal of reducing opioid-related morbidity and mortality. He is the co-lead of the American College of Emergency Physicians’ E-QUAL Opioid Initiative and serves on opioid task forces for several organizations, including NAM, AMA and CHIME. His current research, including multiple grant-funded projects from the NIH, focuses on prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder.
GUEST
Todd Rowland, MD, FAAPMR
Chief Medical Officer, Motiv
Chief Medical Officer, VitalFlo
CEO, Bridge2Medical
Attending Physician, Duke Hospitals
Dr. Todd Rowland has more than 25 years of healthcare experience which includes roles as practicing physician, CEO of health information exchange, CMIO (Chief Medical Information Officer), and most recently enterprise Senior Vice President and CIO. He has worked with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions using several IT platforms which include Allscripts, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, MEDITECH, Mirth, Optum, and other technologies.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Acknowledging and Addressing Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Communities
In this episode Host Tom Liddell, CEO of Harmony Health IT; speaks with Amnah Anwar, Senior Director of the Indiana Rural Health Association, on her extensive work in developing and implementing local strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic in rural Indiana communities. Working with trusted local stakeholders to organize educational opportunities for the community as well as physicians helped permeate the stigma and shame surrounding addiction. By first addressing fundamental barriers, implementing wraparound medical and community services for those suffering from or at risk of opioid and substance use disorder and overdose became a coordinated effort. Further iterations, including telehealth and other virtual tools and services, were introduced and adopted widely during the covid-19 pandemic.
HOST
Tom Liddell
CEO, Harmony Healthcare IT
Tom is a Managing Partner for Harmony Healthcare IT, serving as Chief Executive Officer. He has over 35 years of experience in healthcare information technology, and was President and Co-Founder of SMI, a healthcare technology firm located in Indiana. SMI was a part of an initial public offering that formed Medical Manager Corp (MMC) where Tom served as a Sr. Vice President. MMC was merged into WebMD where he held positions of Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development as well as Senior VP of Product Management. As Senior VP of Product Management, Tom was responsible for the development and launch of a new fully-integrated financial system and electronic health record. Since 2006, he has provided senior level consulting for a variety of healthcare technology companies, health information exchanges and a regional laboratory. In his career, Tom has been responsible for overall design of Cerner Millennium multi-hospital and laboratory health information exchange platforms. Additionally, he has designed methods of data extraction, integration and backup solutions to better support healthcare integration. Today, he participates in every facet of the Harmony Healthcare IT business, providing vision and operational guidance.
GUEST
Amnah Anwar, MBBS, MPH
Senior Director, Indiana Rural Health Association
Program Director, Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center
Amnah Anwar, MBBS, MPH is a public health professional working as an Epidemiologist and Senior Director at Indiana Rural Health Association. Her experience includes senior staff management, program management, grant evaluations, and grant writing. She oversees multiple programs focusing on increasing access to care for behavioral health and substance use disorder in rural Indiana. These include the Indiana Rural Opioid Consortium for combating the epidemic of Substance use overdose deaths and morbidity in rural Indiana. IRHA Community Paramedicine program uses paramedics as physician extenders to increase access to care for high-risk pregnant mothers, explicitly focusing on others suffering from SUD. The Rural Substance Use Disorder program aims to increase medication access for opioid use disorder MOUD treatment in rural Indiana. She joined the Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center as the program director and brings her experience from both the provider and consumer side to the program.
She is also the lead evaluator and co-lead for the evaluation and data department/division of IRHA. She serves as the secretary for the board of the Indiana Immunization Coalition IIC, Health By Design (HBD) board member, Elli Lilly CRFO Board member and member of the Indiana AHEC advisory committee.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Cooper Center for Healing and Technology Innovation: Looking to the Future (Episode 3 of 3)
In the final Episode of this three part series Dr. Sean Kelly, MD speaks to Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM and Dustin Hufford of Cooper University Health Care about their agile methods for innovating and adapting their services for treating pain, addiction and behavioral health all under one roof! Hear their thoughts on emerging technologies that show promise for addressing persisting health care gaps, state and federal policies, and what doesn’t exist today that would be helpful to further innovate in their space.
Host
Dr. Sean Kelly, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Customer Strategy, Healthcare
FACEP, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine - part time, Harvard Medical School
Guests
Dustin Hufford
Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Cooper University Health Care
Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM
Center Head, Cooper Center for Healing
Medical Director of Government Relations at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, NJ
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Dr. Baston is dual boarded in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She obtained a master’s degree in Neuroscience from Kings College London and then graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She pursued full spectrum family medicine training with obstetrics in Seattle, Washington, with a concentration in maternal child health. Her work in primary care illuminated the stigma and marginalization associated with addiction, and she observed that both patients and medical professionals suffer from the lack of addiction medicine training and integration into healthcare. With the goals of community centered health care delivery, population health improvement, and hospital system quality improvement, she completed an American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) accredited fellowship She became the medical director of Cooper’s addiction medicine program in 2015, and built what is now the Cooper Center for Healing, which includes integrated pain, addiction, and behavioral health care. As of this center, Dr. Baston currently runs an inpatient addiction consult service, multiple outpatient specialty clinics, a wrap-around perinatal substance use disorder program, undergraduate and graduate medical education in addiction medicine, research, and several million dollars in grant funded programming. This work expanded to state and national level policy in the field of addiction medicine, and beyond. Currently, Dr. Baston is focused on work at a policy level to support state-funded programs for substance use disorder treatment and improvements in population health by addressing social determinants of health. In her role as Medical Director of Government Relations, she strives to ensure that all patients have access to compassionate care and evidence based medical treatments that allow them to live full and satisfying lives. Kaitlan is proud to work with an interdisciplinary team of like-minded, driven individuals at Cooper who are dedicated to making positive change in the healthcare system.
Cooper Center for Healing https://www.cooperhealth.org/services/center-healing
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Cooper Center for Healing and Technology Innovation: How Things Work Today (Episode 2 of 3)
In episode 2 of this three part series Dr. Sean Kelly, MD speaks to Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM and Dustin Hufford of Cooper University Health Care about their agile methods for innovating and adapting their services for treating pain, addiction and behavioral health all under one roof!
Host
Dr. Sean Kelly, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Customer Strategy, Healthcare
FACEP, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine - part time, Harvard Medical School
Guests
Dustin Hufford
Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Cooper University Health Care
Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM
Center Head, Cooper Center for Healing
Medical Director of Government Relations at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, NJ
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Dr. Baston is dual boarded in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She obtained a master’s degree in Neuroscience from Kings College London and then graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She pursued full spectrum family medicine training with obstetrics in Seattle, Washington, with a concentration in maternal child health. Her work in primary care illuminated the stigma and marginalization associated with addiction, and she observed that both patients and medical professionals suffer from the lack of addiction medicine training and integration into healthcare. With the goals of community centered health care delivery, population health improvement, and hospital system quality improvement, she completed an American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) accredited fellowship She became the medical director of Cooper’s addiction medicine program in 2015, and built what is now the Cooper Center for Healing, which includes integrated pain, addiction, and behavioral health care. As of this center, Dr. Baston currently runs an inpatient addiction consult service, multiple outpatient specialty clinics, a wrap-around perinatal substance use disorder program, undergraduate and graduate medical education in addiction medicine, research, and several million dollars in grant funded programming. This work expanded to state and national level policy in the field of addiction medicine, and beyond. Currently, Dr. Baston is focused on work at a policy level to support state-funded programs for substance use disorder treatment and improvements in population health by addressing social determinants of health. In her role as Medical Director of Government Relations, she strives to ensure that all patients have access to compassionate care and evidence based medical treatments that allow them to live full and satisfying lives. Kaitlan is proud to work with an interdisciplinary team of like-minded, driven individuals at Cooper who are dedicated to making positive change in the healthcare system.
Cooper Center for Healing https://www.cooperhealth.org/services/center-healing
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Cooper Center for Healing and Technology Innovation: From the Ground-up (Episode 1 of 3)
In episode one of this three part series Dr. Sean Kelly, MD speaks to Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM and Dustin Hufford of Cooper University Health Care about their experience developing Cooper University Health Care's Center for Healing. This fully integrated leading edge medical facility located in Camden, New Jersey is the gold standard for treating pain, addiction, and behavioral health care all under one roof.
Host
Dr. Sean Kelly, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Customer Strategy, Healthcare
FACEP, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine - part time, Harvard Medical School
Guests
Dustin Hufford
Chief Information Officer and , Cooper University Health Care
Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM
Center Head, Cooper Center for Healing
Medical Director of Government Relations at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, NJ
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Dr. Baston is dual boarded in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She obtained a master’s degree in Neuroscience from Kings College London and then graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She pursued full spectrum family medicine training with obstetrics in Seattle, Washington, with a concentration in maternal child health. Her work in primary care illuminated the stigma and marginalization associated with addiction, and she observed that both patients and medical professionals suffer from the lack of addiction medicine training and integration into healthcare. With the goals of community centered health care delivery, population health improvement, and hospital system quality improvement, she completed an American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) accredited fellowship She became the medical director of Cooper’s addiction medicine program in 2015, and built what is now the Cooper Center for Healing, which includes integrated pain, addiction, and behavioral health care. As of this center, Dr. Baston currently runs an inpatient addiction consult service, multiple outpatient specialty clinics, a wrap-around perinatal substance use disorder program, undergraduate and graduate medical education in addiction medicine, research, and several million dollars in grant funded programming. This work expanded to state and national level policy in the field of addiction medicine, and beyond. Currently, Dr. Baston is focused on work at a policy level to support state-funded programs for substance use disorder treatment and improvements in population health by addressing social determinants of health. In her role as Medical Director of Government Relations, she strives to ensure that all patients have access to compassionate care and evidence based medical treatments that allow them to live full and satisfying lives. Kaitlan is proud to work with an interdisciplinary team of like-minded, driven individuals at Cooper who are dedicated to making positive change in the healthcare system.
Cooper Center for Healing https://www.cooperhealth.org/services/center-healing
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
How Seattle Children’s Hospital Leveraged Real-World EMR Data to Deliver Opioid-Free Surgery
Dr. Dan Low, MD speaks to his co-worker Dr. Lynn Martin, MD, MBA about how they leveraged Seattle Children's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data to eliminate opioid usage intraoperatively in over 40,000 surgeries. AdaptX was introduced to the Anesthesia team as a self-service clinical performance solution. This allowed clinical teams and their leaders to directly access real-world data collected by their EMRs. Now, they could look across their patients to manage focused improvements and understand the performance of their protocols.
Host
Dr. Dan Low, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Chief Medical Officer, AdaptX
Guest
Dr. Lynn Martin, MD, MBA
Medical Director, Continuous Improvement, and Innovation at Seattle Children’s Hospital
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Peer Recovery Coaches in the Emergency Treatment and Care of Individuals with Substance Use Disorder
In this episode, the role of a peer recovery coach is highlighted as a novel approach to supporting individuals with substance use disorder. Dr. Evan Schwarz, MD outlines how he has integrated peer recovery coaches into the acute treatment and care of individuals in the Emergency Department. Peer recovery coach Jessica Gallegos MSW, LCSW shares how she approaches patients in the ED, the role of technology in supporting the coordination of care and the journey that led her to this role.
HOSTAmanda Hays, PharmD., MHA, BCPS, CPHQ, DPLA, FASHP
Director, Medical Affairs, BD
GUESTSEvan Schwarz, MD, FACEP, FACMT, FASAM
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Medical Toxicology Division Chief & Fellowship Director, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Jessica Gallegos MSW, LCSW
Clinical Case Manager, Division of Infectious Disease, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Impact of ASHP Drug Diversion Guidelines on Data and Surveillance featuring ASHP Guideline Co-authors
HOST
Amanda Hays, PharmD., MHA, BCPS, CPHQ, DPLA, FASHP
Director, Medical Affairs, BD
GUESTSEric Maroyka, PharmD, BCPS
Senior Director, Center Pharmacy Practice Advancement, ASHP
Jordan Rush, PharmD, MS
Director, System Retail & Outpatient Pharmacy, UNC Health
Co-author, ASHP Revised Guidelines, Controlled Substance Diversion
Kristi Gullickson, PharmD, MBA, FASHP, FMSHP, DLPA
Director, Pharmacy and System Operations Lead, Allina Health at Abbot Northwestern Hospital
Co-author, ASHP Revised Guidelines, Controlled Substance Diversion
Interoperability Between EMS/Fire, Public Health and Hospitals
Host: Patty Lavely, CIO Consultant and Co-chair, CHIME Opioid Task Force
Guests:
Amaury Hernandez, Director of Medical Transportation, Health Care District of Palm Beach
Jonathon Feit, Co-Founder & CEO, Beyond Lucid
Amaury, an experienced flight and ground paramedic with decades of experience shares an overview of EMS work as it relates to the approach and treatment of opioid/substance abuse emergencies. He'll share common barriers to accessing patient data as well as some solutions. Jonathon tackles Amaury’s data issues through his experience working at his company that specializes in software for mobile medical services.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Implementing Dashboard Tools for Clinicians
Implementing Dashboard Tools for Clinicians
Addressing Stigma and Knowledge Gaps
Host: Bill Spooner, mostly retired former CIO and member of the Opioid Task Force
In 2010, the area serviced by West Virginia’s Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) was leading the nation in opioid overdose deaths. Dr. Shelda Martin MD, FACP shares her experience with addressing stigma and knowledge gaps that prevent clinicians from identifying and treating opioid use disorder. Dr. W. Kendall Wyatt MD, RN, EMTP’s medical and technological background combined with Dr. Martin’s process and leadership expertise, allowed them to successfully implement an embedded Opioid Tool Kit.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Guests:
Dr. Shelda Martin MD, FACP
Associate Chief Medical Officer, CAMC Memorial Division
Medical Director, CAMC Ryan White Program - HIV Care
Physician Champion, Substance Use Disorder Task Force
Dr. W. Kendall Wyatt, MD, RN, EMTP
Associate Chief Medical Officer – Informatics
Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Charleston, WV
Community Hospitals and Recovery Coaches
Host: Patty Lavely, MBA, CHCIO, VP, CIDO, Health Care District of Palm Beach County
Join Host Patty Lavely, MBA, CHCIO, VP, CIDO, Health Care District of Palm Beach County, as she facilitates a discussion about community hospitals and recovery coaches with special guests: Laurisa Guerrero, Director of Peer Services, Georgia Council on Substance Abuse; Karen Hoyt, Chaplain, Northeast Georgia Medical Center; Aubrey Williams, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, RNC-NIC, MATS, Nurse Educator, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; and Alexus Pitts, CARES, CPS-AD, MATS, NICU Peer Recovery Coach, Georgia Council on Substance Abuse.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
A Discussion on EMBED Programs
A Discussion on EMBED Programs
with Dr. Ted Melnick, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Hosted by: Ryan Stolcpart, PharmD
In this Opioid Action Center Podcast, Ryan Stolcpart, PharmD, converses with Dr. Ted Melnick, an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s York Street and Shoreline campuses, about their EMBED program, including an application designed to facilitate MOUD treatment in the ED. Dr. Melnick is currently in his final year as Principal Investigator of the EMBED project, a five-year UG3/UH3 National Institute on Drug Abuse award to develop, disseminate, implement, and test a user-centered decision support system to facilitate ED-initiation of buprenorphine for individuals suffering from opioid user disorder.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Combatting Substance Abuse in the Community
Combatting Substance Abuse in the Community
with Alice McCaffrey, Sullivan County, TN Anti-Drug Coalition
Hosted by Bill Spooner, Retired CIO
Guest Alice McCaffrey is the Director of the Sullivan County Anti-Drug Coalition and has worked for the Coalition since its start in January 2011. Since then the Coalition has grown to 12 staff members and became its own fiscal agent in 2019. Alice has a BS in Business Administration: Organizational Innovation and is a certified prevention specialist, a graduate of CADCA's National Coalition Academy, and a trainer for the TN ACE Initiative: Building Strong Brains, and SAMHSA’s Trauma-Informed Care. She has two grown sons and is a grandmother to three.
The CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s healthcare IT leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Why should anesthesia and IT leadership partner to prevent drug diversion?
In this Opioid Action Center podcast, Amanda Hays, BD, hosts Dr. Elizabeth Rebello, MD Anderson, and Dr. Dominic Carollo, Ochsner Health, to discuss substance abuse disorder in the surgical setting and the associated risks to patient and staff safety. They share their thoughts on why OR and Procedural Areas create unique challenges to monitoring for potential drug diversion, their frontline experiences, how they support efforts in their organizations to raise awareness and have successfully implemented technology and processes that help prevent and detect drug diversion.
Interviewees:
Dr. Elizabeth Rebello, MD Anderson Anesthesia, APSF
Dr. Dominic Carollo, Ochsner Health
Moderator: Amanda Hays, PharmD, BD
Destigmatizing Addiction & Expanding How to Treat It
In this episode, Bill Spooner speaks to Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Kelly Moore, about her work on the issue of stigma and addiction. She shares how her research and clinical experiences led her to do work on destigmatizing substance use disorder and mental health problems. She also shares her experience with implementing workplace initiatives to reduce stigma such as training employers; and providing treatment for those in recovery.
Moderator
Bill Spooner, FCHIME, CHCIO
Guest
Dr. Kelly Moore, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Assistant Professor of Psychology, East Tennessee State University
In early 2018, the CHIME Opioid Task Force (OTF) was launched with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation’s health care IT leaders. They created the Opioid Action Center (OAC) to provide the latest knowledge, resources and insights for health care IT leaders on the front lines of the opioid crisis. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid/substance use disorder is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools.
Drug Diversion Prevention - A Primer for the IT Leader
In this podcast episode, Dr. Keith Woeltje, CMIO at Froedtert Health in Wisconsin, shares valuable resources and information about opioid drug diversion. He also describes the role a CMIO can play in raising awareness, implementing technology to help prevent it from happening in a hospital, and his frontline experiences in treating patients with complications of substance use disorder.
Keith F. Woeltje, MD, PhD
- VP, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Froedtert Health in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Amanda Hays, Pharm.D., MHA, BCPS, CPHQ, FASHP
- Associate Director, Medical Affairs at BD
Reducing Controlled Substances by Targeting High Prescribers
In this podcast episode, moderator Dave Lehr, Chief Strategy Officer at Meritus Health, interviews Dr. Alan Weiss, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baycare Health System. Dr. Weiss describes the trailblazing analytics dashboards that he and the team at Baycare developed to help fight the opioid crisis. With an innovative data subscription method, digital health leaders can gain insights on which providers may be “outliers” in the number of opioid prescriptions they are writing for patients.
Using this data to follow up with a private and tactful consultation system to help providers realize when their prescriptions may be out of alignment with those of their peers, Dr. Weiss’s team was able to reduce opioid prescriptions by double-digit figures. This breakthrough result is lifesaving, as decreasing the number of prescriptions means also reducing the risk that patients will develop opioid dependencies. In addition, the data shows that reducing the prescription numbers did not appear to lead to any rise in negative outcomes such as increased overdoses from street drugs containing fentanyl. Dr. Weiss looks forward to further analytics developments with his team that will allow the identification of patients at high risk of accidental overdose.
Dr. Alan M. Weiss is CMIO for BayCare Health System. He holds primary responsibility over all clinical systems and their associated governance as well as providing executive leadership over data and analytics. He was previously the first Ambulatory CMIO for Memorial Herman System. Dr. Weiss spent 10 years practicing at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was head of the business informatics group in primary care and head of main campus internal medicine operations. He is passionate about patient care and advocates for the proper use of data and analytics to refine EHR development toward the inclusion of evidence-based medicine.
Dave Lehr is Meritus Health’s first chief strategy officer. In 2021, Governor Larry Hogan appointed him as a commissioner to the Community Health Resources Commission. He also serves on the board for the Washington County Chamber of Commerce. Before joining Meritus, Dave was the chief information officer for Luminis Health, based in Annapolis, where he was selected as one of the top 25 emerging leaders in health care in 2019 by Modern Healthcare.
New Naloxone Formulations for First Responders to Deadly Fentanyl
In this podcast episode, host Dr. Steven H. Linder talks with three other expert physicians who are leaders in the fight against the opioid epidemic: Dr. Casey Grover, Dr. Don Stader, and Dr. Scott Weiner. The panel explores the power of naloxone, the emergency intervention that has saved countless people after accidental overdose with fentanyl, the illicit drug now appearing in pill form and in illegal drugs of all kinds. The physicians give a moving inside look at the actual situation on the front lines, as healthcare professionals and communities join forces to save their loved ones. With opioid-related deaths at an all-time high in 2022, the panelists explore how we can make a difference, whether by carrying naloxone personally, raising awareness of fentanyl’s dangers, or advocating for much-needed investment in addiction medicine. The podcast begins with a 4 minute introduction and background to the subject, followed by the panel discussion at 4:00.
Featuring:
Steven H. Linder, MD, FCCP, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Pulmonary Medicine, Staff Physician, VA Medical Center Palo Alto, California
Casey Grover, MD, FACEP, Chair of the Division of Emergency Medicine, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and Physician Champion of the Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative.
Don Stader, MD, FACEP, Founder & President, Stader Opioid Consultants and Chair of the Colorado Naloxone Project. Physician, Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado.
Scott Weiner, MD, MPH, Director, Brigham Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education Program, Brigham Women’s Hospital
Dr. Tom Britton: Advances in Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
In this podcast episode, host Andy Smith talks with Dr. Tom Britton about the evolution of treatment for addiction. Britton provides an overview of the recent rise in substance use disorder related to the pandemic. Technology and necessity have now created a much wider variety of options for those in need of treatment. The rapid advancement of virtual healthcare and digital assistance for those in recovery offers new hope: today’s treatment works.
Stigma & Bias: A Family's Perspective
In this episode, Ed Kopetsky describes his personal experiences with Opioid addiction, the stigma surrounding this disease, and the lack of care and treatment options for individuals with addiction and mental health illnesses.
Conversation with Dr. Belma Andric on Compassionate Care Through an Addiction Stabilization Unit
In this podcast episode, Patty Lavely talks with Dr. Belma Andric about an innovative community collaboration to provide more compassionate and effective care after overdoses by creating an Addiction Stabilization Unit. Serving the Healthcare District of Palm Beach County, Patty Lavely is VP and Chief Information and Digital Officer and Dr. Belma Andric is VP and Chief Medical Officer.
Conversation with Monty Burks, Director of Faith Based initiatives at Tennessee Dept. of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
In this podcast, Monty Burks shares the passion behind his purpose, and how his personal crisis became a lifetime mission. Monty goes on to talk about the value of a people-first approach to recovery that includes access to resources, support and community.
Conversation with Dr. Scott Weiner and Dr. Halena Gazelka
In this podcast, Dr. Gazelka shares why the Mayo Clinic started their Stewardship Program; education efforts for staff and patients; and metrics around opioid use and how Mayo measured the success of the program.
Conversation with Dr. Randall Jessee, Snr. Dir. of Behavioral Health and Trish Tanner, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Ballad Health
In this podcast, Dr. Jessee and Trish Tanner share why taking an active role against the opioid crisis is important to them. They go on to talk about the work of the task force in their community; how it is providing treatment, counseling and other resources to those in need; and they offer advice to other communities who may want to start a similar initiative.
Conversation with Becky Haas, National Trauma Informed Care, Author, Trainer and Speaker
In this podcast, Becky Haas shares her knowledge and experience in the area of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and how it correlates to drug use and an inflation of drug-related crimes. From working with the healthcare community to law enforcement, Becky talks about the value of bringing many voices to the table when it comes to advocating, educating and collaborating to move the needle in the battle against drug use and addiction.
Learn more about the work Becky is doing by visiting her site: https://beckyhaas.com
Janet Desroche, Associate VP of Meditech, speaks with Dr. Sarah Porter about opioid addiction and the stigma associated with it.
In this podcast, Dr. Porter shares why opioid addiction and stigma is important to her. She also talks about her prescribing practices; how stigma impacts treatment; the role of technology in supporting patients and caregivers; and how she utilizes a cognitive behavioral leadership model.
Conversation with Judge O. Duane Sloan, recipient of The William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence, Distinguished Service Award
In this podcast, Judge Sloan talks about mental health and the criminal justice system in Tennessee; his work with the drug recovery courts; the Rural Justice Collaborative as a new initiative across the country; and why he works to bring hope and healing to hurting people.