GREETINGS EVERYBODY. WELCOME TO THE DIVISION OF WELLNESS AS WELL AS HUMAN
SOLUTIONS OPIOID SEMINAR. AS A PRIMARY DATA OFFICER OF HHS I'' M EXTREMELY THANKFUL TO EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR COMING HERE FROM ALL THROUGHOUT THE NATION AND ALSO FOR BRINGING YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND ALSO YOUR INTEREST IN THE DIRECTION OF DATA DRIVEN SOLUTIONS TO THIS EVENT. WE ARE STAYING IN THE MIDST OF ONE OF THE MOST AWFUL PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS CRISES I'' VE SEEN AS A PHYSICIAN, THE OPIOID UPSURGE HAS IMPACTED NUMEROUS PALS AND ALSO NEIGHBORS AS WELL AS DEVASTATED WHOLE NEIGHBORHOODS. AS A CARRIER, THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE LARGE VARIETY OF INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS AS WELL AS LIMITED RESOURCES WE HAVE MAKES ME QUESTION HOW WE CONTAINER BE MOST EFFECTIVE AND ALSO WHETHER THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE ARE GETTING TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE AT THE RIGHT TIME.AT HHS, DEPARTMENT DEGREE, WE ' RE ASKING THE SAME CONCERNS.
HOW DO WE MAKE MORE ENLIGHTENED CHOICES AROUND PLANS AS WELL AS THE MEANS IN WHICH WE ALLOCATE RESOURCES. HOW DO WE COMPANION MANY SUCCESSFULLY WITH OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT THE STATE AND NEIGHBORHOOD LEVELS, THAT ARE AT THE LEADING SIDE OF THIS BATTLE. HOW DO WE ASSISTANCE FRONTLINE RESPONDERS WHO ARE SEEING THE HEART DAMAGING IMPACT OF THIS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES EVERYDAY? HOW DO WE ASSISTANCE FAMILIES COPING DEPENDENCY TO OBTAIN THE HELP THEY NEED? SIMILARLY THAT A LOT OF OUR CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
IS SILOED, THE DETAILS WE DEMAND TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS IS ALSO SILOED.AT HHS WE ' RE ON
THE VERY SAME JOURNEY AS SO MANY OF YOU AT THE STATE LEVEL. HOW DO WE CONNECT INFORMATION FROM ACROSS OUR AGENCIES TO BETTER ADDRESS THE NEEDS AND SERVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS? STATES HAVE BEEN LEADING THIS DIFFICULT FUNCTION OF DATA INTEGRATION AND I BELIEVE HHS COULD LEARN A WHOLE LOT FROM YOU. THAT WAS THE GENESIS OF THIS SEMINAR TODAY AS WELL AS CODEATHON THAT WILL FOLLOW. TODAY, WE WANT TO SHINE A LIGHT NOT ONLY ON WHAT WE ' RE DOING AT THE FEDERAL DEGREE, BUT REALLY
WHAT STATES ARE GOING TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR BETTER AND EVEN MORE INCORPORATED DATA USE, FOR THE CODE-A-THON TODAY AND TOMORROW, WE HAVE COMPILED NEAR 70 DATASETS FROM ACROSS HHS AGENCIES, FROM OTHER FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS, FROM STATES AS WELL AS COMPANIES. I ' D LIKE TO TIME OUT THERE JUST FOR A SECONDLY TO UNDERSCORE WHAT I STATED. OUR PARTNERS TOGETHER HAVE CONCERN UNITE 70 DATASETS THAT GIVE INSIGHTS, NOT'ONLY INTO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WELLNESS SIDE OF THIS INCREDIBLE EPIDEMIC, BUT ALSO TO UNDERSTANDING THE MYRIAD OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS THAT IMPACT THE PROGRAM OF THIS IN COMMUNITIES.AS YOU CAN APPRECIATE, ACQUIRING TO THIS POINT TODAY WAS NOT VERY EASY. THERE ARE MANY OBSTACLES TO INFORMATION SHARING, LEGAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AS WELL AS CULTURAL. AT THE VERY SAME TIME, OVER THE PAST 6 MONTHS I '
VE BEEN BEWILDERED WITH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WISH TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP. AS A CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, WHEN I ASK AGENCIES AND ALSO OUTSIDE PARTNERS TO SHARE INFORMATION, IT IS REALLY EASY AS YOU'ALL KNOW TO OBTAIN CAUGHT IN THE MINUTIA OF THE DISCUSSIONS. THE FUNCTION OF ASSISTING UNDERSTAND THIS EPIDEMIC AS WELL AS TO CONSERVE LIVES, I ' VE BEEN OVERWHELMED BY THE CHARACTER OF OUR HHS PERSONNEL, THAT HAVE STEPPED UP AND SAID YES AND HAVE
WORKED RELENTLESSLY WITH United States TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO DO THIS AND TO PROGRESS. CONSEQUENTLY, TODAY WE ' LL HAVE EVEN MORE THAN'50 GROUPS CODING FOR 24 HRS, UTILIZING INFORMATION THAT THEY HAVE PROBABLY NOT SEEN BEFORE AHEAD UP WITH REMEDIES THAT ADDRESS THE REAL NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES.
NONETHELESS, THE TECHNICAL PIECE OF IT WON ' T BE ENOUGH FOR THE CODERS TO WIN.WE ' RE ASKING THEM TO THINK OF THE END CUSTOMER, WHETHER THAT ' S A CLIENT, A HOUSEHOLD, FRONTLINE RESPONDERS, OR PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION.
THESE SOLUTIONS HAVE TO BE USEFUL
BY'THOSE THAT REQUIRED THEM MOST. THEREFORE THE OTHER DAY WE ALSO PARTNERED WITH STANFORD MEDICATION X TO HOST A WORKSHOP WITH EXPERTS IN CREATING USABLE SOLUTIONS AND ALSO THESE BASICS WILL DIRECTLY NOTIFY THE SERVICES THE PROGRAMMERS WILL CERTAINLY SERVICE. FOR THOSE THAT ARE ABLE TO STAY, I PROMPT YOU TO SEE
WHAT ' S POSSIBLE WHEN LAYOUT SATISFIES INFORMATION. I BELIEVE THAT INFORMATION IS POWERFUL. IN THE FACE
OF A COMPLICATED ISSUE LIKE THIS, IT IS ONLY AS POWERFUL AS WELL AS ACTIONABLE AS OUR ABILITY TO SHARE IT.AS YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE PRESENTATIONS TODAY, PLEASE THINK OF WHAT ACTIVITIES YOU CAN ABSORB YOUR COMMUNITIES. WE NEED TODAY TO BE ORIENTED IN THE DIRECTION OF REMEDIES.
HOW CAN LESSONS LEARNED IN INFORMATION COMBINATION IN ONE PART OF THE NATION BE APPLIED IN YOUR COMMUNITIES? I AM THRILLED AT
OUR SCHEDULE TODAY. AS WELL AS REALLY EAGER TO LEARN FROM EVERY ONE OF YOU. TO INTERACT, AS WELL AS I HOPE TODAY WE CANISTER COME ONE ACTION CLOSER TO CONNECT CANNING DATA TO CONSERVE LIVES. KEEPING THAT, I ' D LIKE TO PRESENT BRUCE GREENSTEIN, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY POLICE OFFICER, FIFTY PERCENT IN THE PRIVATE FIELD, FIFTY PERCENT IN GOVERNMENT, PREVIOUS ASSISTANT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS IN LOUISIANA, SUPERVISOR OF WAIVERS AND ALSO MANAGED CARE FOR MEDICAID AT CMS'. BRUCE HAS A HISTORY AT MICROSOFT RUNNING THE WORLDWIDE WELLNESS AND ALSO PERSON SERVICES ORGANIZATION DIVISION AND MOST LATELY WAS PRESIDENT OF QUARTET WELLNESS, A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS TECHNOLOGY FIRM. BACKGROUNDS SPANS SPECIFY AS WELL AS FEDERAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
HUGE BUSINESS AS WELL AS TECH START-UP, LOOKS FROM EACH ANGLE AND PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT SOLUTIONS TO BE APPLIED TO THE OPIOID UPSURGE IN THE SAME MEANS. [PRAISE] > > GREETINGS, EVERY PERSON. IT ' S NICE, REALLY NICE, TO BE HERE THEREFORE FANTASTIC TO SEE A LOT OF FAMILIAR ENCOUNTERS, INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE INTEGRATING TO REALLY GET THINGS DONE.THIS MORNING I ' M GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT
>> A FEW POINTS THAT ARE NOT EVERYTHING ABOUT INFORMATION OR CODING, NOT EVEN EVERYTHING ABOUT OPIOIDS. I ' M GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT HUMILITY IN GOVERNMENT. I ' M GOING TO TALK ABOUT PARADIGMS'AS WELL AS ADVANCEMENT IN HHS.
DO I HAVE THE WIRELESS GOING? SO LET ME KNOW ARE WE GREAT ON THE WIRELESS? SO I NEED TO TALK A BIT ABOUT HUMBLENESS IN GOVERNMENT'. THERE ARE WORDS THAT ARE COMMONLY NOT MADE USE OF WITH EACH OTHER IN HISTORY. OVER LONG, LONG CENTURIES GOVERNMENTS HAVE BEEN GOOD ABOUT NOT EXPOSING DESPAIR.GOVERNMENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD COMMON DESCRIPTIONS OR EXCUSES TO COVER TROUBLES. TODAY, WHY WE ' RE RIGHT HERE IS REALLY ABOUT HUMBLENESS. WE ' RE HAVING A CODEATHON BECAUSE IT CONFESSES SOMETHING. IT ADMITS THAT WE ' RE HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME RESOLVING A HUGE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS DILEMMA.
WE HAVE THE CDC, THE WORLD ' S GREATEST PUBLIC'WELLNESS AGENCY, AND ALSO THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO STARE DOWN ZIKA AND ALSO EBOLA BUT THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY TOUGH DILEMMA FOR US.AND IT ' S US BELOW CONFESSING WE NEED ASSISTANCE. SO INDIVIDUALS FROM AROUND THE NATION, A FEW OF THE VERY BEST MINDS, REALLY THE VERY BEST MINDS WORLDWIDES FROM RESPECTED COLLEGES, BIGGEST AND MOST CUTTING-EDGE FIRMS HAVE INVOLVE WASHINGTON, D.C. TO AID US NUMBER THIS OUT. THERE ' S SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL WHEN A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES THAT THEY ARE STUCK AS WELL AS DEMANDS AID. WE ' RE DOING EVERY LITTLE THING THAT WE CONTAINER BELOW IN HHS AS WELL AS WE ' RE ASKED FOR INDIVIDUALS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY AND THE GLOBE TO HELP US NUMBER THIS OUT, WHICH ' S WHAT THIS EVENT IS REALLY ABOUT. IT ' S REALLY SORT OF A SPECIAL THING FOR US HERE AT HHS. IT REALLY TRIGGERS TO ME'WHAT WILL BE A DIFFERENT PARADIGM.WE KNOW PARADIGMS, INDIVIDUALS OFTEN USAGE THE TERM “STANDARD CHANGE” BUT IF YOU THINK OF WHERE THE TERM STANDARD CAME TO BE POPULAR, THOMAS KUHN, 1962, STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS. THERE IS NO PARADIGM CHANGE THE METHOD I CHECK OUT HIS BOOK.
THERE ' S REALLY TERRIBLE CHANGE IN THE MEANS WE THINK AS WELL AS EXPLAIN SOMETHING
. CONSIDER ONE OF HIS INSTANCES, PTLOLEMY HAS HIS LAYOUT OF PLANETARY STRUCTURE, EXISTING WHERE THE EARTH WAS THE FACILITY OF THE UNIVERSE.
NEWTON CLAIMED, NO, YOU ' RE MISDOING, I DID THE MATH, THE SUNLIGHT REMAINS IN THE MIDDLE. THERE WAS NO SHIFT. IT DIDN ' T GO SLOWLY. THEY DIDN ' T AGREE LET ' S CALL MERCURY THE FACILITY FOR A COUPLE YEARS AS WELL AS WE ' LL FIGURE IT OUT.THAT WAS KIND OF A JOKE, ACTUALLY. WE CLAIMED ONE COMPETES VERSUS THE OTHER. AS WELL AS SO WHEN WE ARE RIGHT HERE AT HHS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THAT CHANGE HAPPENING, AND THIS IS QUITE INTERESTING BECAUSE YOU ' RE ALL COMPONENT OF THE TRANSFORMATION, ALL WARRIORS IN THIS, THE TRANSFORMATION ABOUT UTILIZING DATA AS OPPOSED TO HOARDING IT, IT ' S CONCERNING USING DATA TO DEVELOP REMEDIES RATHER THAN USING INFORMATION SIMPLY FOR REPORTING.AND IT ' S REGARDING PRODUCING THE RESPONSE TO OUR PROBLEMS BY BEING WELL-INFORMED, BY BEING INFORMATION DRIVEN. WE KNOW THAT ' S PART OF ADVANCEMENT BUT DEVELOPMENT IS NOT WHAT WE USE AS THE DEFAULT. THIS IS GOVERNMENT.
A MILLION JOKES HAVE BEEN MADE ABOUT DEVELOPMENT. IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS AN OXYMORON, SOMETHING
THAT DOESN ' T FIT. BUT THAT ' S NOT IN WHICH WE NEED IT TO BE. WE NEED A TO BATTLE THAT STANDARD AS United States, AS REVOLUTIONARIES, TO MAKE SURE THAT DEVELOPMENT COMES TO BE THE DEFAULT, IT ENDS UP BEING THE MODUS OPERANDI, IT DOESN ' T EXIST AS JUST
SOME ALSO OFFICE FOR THE PRIMARY TECHNOLOGY POLICEMAN OR AN WORKPLACE IN CMS OR CDC WITH A COUPLE REALLY SMART PEOPLE AS WELL AS THEY GET TURNED OUT FROM TIME TO TIME.
WE NEED DEVELOPMENT TO BE THE TEXTILE OF WHAT WE DO EVERY DAY. WE WANT IT TO BE THE DEFAULT, NOT THE EXEMPTION. WHICH ' S THE REVOLUTION THAT ' S HAPPENING NOW IN THE PARADIGMS.SO WE INTEND TO SEE THAT
PARADIGM TRIUMPH, NOT SHIFT. WE NEED TO DO THIS REALLY SOON. IN OUR OFFICE WE DO GENERALLY 3 THINGS. AND ALSO THE FIRST THING IS WHAT WE ' RE DOING RIGHT HERE TODAY. WE CONCENTRATE ON DEVELOPMENT. THEREFORE WE EMPHASIS ON INNOVATION'THROUGH DATA. SO YOU SEE THE OPEN DATA MOVEMENT WITHIN HHS. I HAVE
TO INFORM A LITTLE STORY.
WHEN I BEGAN RIGHT HERE 7 MONTHS BACK, FUNCTIONING WITH THE ASSISTANT AS WELL AS THE WHITE HOME ABOUT ONE OF OUR BIG EFFORTS, WHICH IS OPEN DATA, YOU '
LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT EVEN MORE ABOUT THAT FROM THE ASSISTANT, WE WENT OUT ALL ACROSS HHS TO ALL THE COMPANIES, ABOUT 80,000 INDIVIDUALS, AND ALSO WE SAY, YEAH, OUR TEAM BELIEVE IN OPEN INFORMATION, WE WISH TO LIBERATE IT AND BRING IT TOGETHER.
EVERYBODY SAID US TOO, MATTER United States IN! WONDERFUL. WE ESTABLISH CONFERENCES, ENTER. OKAY, WE ' RE
INTERESTED TO BRING YOUR INFORMATION IN. NO, NO, NOT MY DATA.IT ' S PRIVATE. OK. WE MOST LIKELY TO THE NEXT CONFERENCE
. OH, NO, NO, WE HAVE SPECIAL USAGE ARRANGEMENT, YOU TIN ' T HAVE OUR INFORMATION BUT OBTAIN EVERYBODY ELSE ' S. THIS WENT ON. WE WONDERED WHAT IS GOING ON? THE CALL TO ACTION CAME, HELLO, YOU DATA GUYS, ADVANCEMENT MEN, WHAT CONTAINER YOU DO
TO ELIMINATE THE OPIOID UPSURGE?
WE'CANISTER BRING SOME BRIGHTEST MINDS WITH EACH OTHER AND CHECK OUT DATA AND COME UP WITH SERVICES.
WE ' LL DO A CODE-A-THON AS WELL AS WE ' LL BRING OUR AREA TOGETHER.GREAT. ALLOW ' S DO IT. WE COLLECTION THE DAY. MONA HAS ACTUALLY ORGANIZED THIS WHOLE POINT.
AND ALSO WHEN WE WENT BACK TO THE VERY SAME INDIVIDUALS, AS WELL AS WE SAID, YOU KNOW THE INFORMATION WAS REALLY HARD TO GET, WE THINK YOUR INFORMATION CANISTER ASSIST CONSERVE LIVES. IT ' S WHERE THIS ORIGINATES FROM. WE'THINK YOUR INFORMATION CAN ASSIST IN SAVING LIVES.
THE IDENTICAL PEOPLE PROGRAMMED TO SAY MY INFORMATION IS PRIVATE, WE CANISTER ' T SHARE IT, YOU ACTUALLY ASSUME SO? OUR INFORMATION CONTAINER SAVE LIVES? COUNT US IN.
WE ' LL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO REALLY HELP THIS EFFORT.SO THAT REVEALED THE CHARACTER OF OUR GROUP OF'THE HHS FAMILY. IT WAS REALLY, REALLY INSPIRING. AND ALSO THEN WHEN WE WENT OUT TO STATES,
LOUISIANA, WASHINGTON, VIRGINIA, INDIANA, ESPECIALLY NORTH CAROLINA, THESE QUESTIONS, WHEN YOU MOST LIKELY TO INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING ON INFORMATION,
AND NOT PROGRAMMED
TO SHARE IT, FROM THE OLD PARADIGM, WHEN YOU INTRODUCE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRANSFER TO THE NEW PARADIGM, WHICH IS SHARING, IT ' S CATHARTIC.
I HEARD LAST NIGHT PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA REALLY DIFFICULT TO GET THE INFORMATION
USE AGREEMENTS AND ALSO OBTAIN THE ATTORNEYS TO AGREE, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT SERVICE IT WERE REALLY EXCITED. AND SO IT WAS CATHARTIC. IT CHANGED. AGAIN, I FEEL THIS STANDARD IS SLIDING THAT WE CANISTER SUCCESS. THAT ' S ONE THING WE CARRY OUT IN THE WORKPLACE OF PRIMARY INNOVATION POLICE OFFICER. THE VARIOUS OTHER THING, WE WISH TO OPEN HHS IN AN VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND MEANS, ARTICULATING THE VISION, WAYS TO ENGAGE SO THE BUSINESS OWNER AND START-UP AREA HAVE EVERY LITTLE BIT OF UNDERSTANDING EQUALLY AS LARGE
FIRMS THAT'HAVE WORKPLACES IN WASHINGTON, D.C.DO.
WE HAVE TO MAKE IT EASIER TO UNDERSTAND AND BROWSE BECAUSE WHAT TAKES PLACE IS
, MY DAYS IN PRIVATE EQUITY AND START-UP, WE NEVER WANT TO VISIT WASHINGTON, D.C. TOO CONFUSING
. TOO BYZANTINE. WE GO OUT, ECONOMIC SECTOR, DEALS ARE A GREAT DEAL EVEN MORE UNCOMPLICATED, AND THEN US IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WE DON ' T OBTAIN A GREAT DEAL OF THAT INNOVATION FOR 5 TO 7 YEARS IN THE FUTURE. WASN ' T THAT TECHNOLOGY NOW FOR OUR INDIVIDUALS AND ALSO THE PROGRAMS WE SERVE.
THE LAST PIECE, OUR INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS PROGRAMS. WE RUN THE IGNITE ACCELERATOR PROGRAM, AS WELL AS YOU ' RE GOING TO SEE ON THE PROGRAM TODAY A PROGRAM THAT ' S A GRAD FROM THAT, WHICH IS FANTASTIC AND ALSO SAVING LIVES TODAY.WE RUN THE ASSISTANT ' S ENDEAVORS PROGRAM, WHICH PUTS CASH
TO ASSIST PERFORM AND SCALE UP THESE REALLY APPEALING TECHNIQUES WITHIN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND AFTERWARDS WE RUN AN BUSINESS OWNER IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM, ATTRACT'PEOPLE THAT OTHERWISE WOULDN ' T. COME INTO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT', WE OBTAIN THEM FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS AND
PUT THEM ON OUR VERY DIFFICULT.
ISSUES TO FIX. IN FACT, MONA WAS AN BUSINESS OWNER IN RESIDENCE. PROGRAM, AND AFTER THAT WE GOT TO WORK WITH HER AT THE END, WHICH WAS REALLY COOL.
SO TODAY AS WELL AS THIS WHOLE EVENT IS REALLY ABOUT. United States MAKING THAT CHANGE. IT ' S US CONNECTING DATA TO CONSERVE LIVES. AS WELL AS WHAT YOU ' LL HEAR TODAY IS REALLY ACTIVITY. ORIENTED, IT ' S MANNER INS WHICH THERE HAVE BEEN INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE TAKEN THEIR IDEAS AS WELL AS PUT THEM INTO.
PRACTICE AND ALSO TODAY WE ' RE ABOUT SHARING THOSE FINEST TECHNIQUES SO THOSE THAT ARE BELOW FROM. COMMUNITIES AROUND THE NATION CONTAINER TAKE THESE METHODS, RETURN RESIDENCE, TRY THEM BENT ON CONSERVE. LIVES THERE. WHAT WE MAKE WITH THE DATA, THIS IMPRESSIVE. COLLECTION OF 70 DATASETS FROM ACROSS FEDERAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS AS WELL AS HHS AS WELL AS OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES AS WELL.
AS STATE GOVERNMENTS, WE ' RE PRODUCT PACKAGING THAT UP AND ALSO TAKING THIS ON THE ROAD.THE BATTLE ' S NOT OVER AS SOON AS WE SURFACE TOMORROW. AS WELL AS MAKE AWARDS TO CODING GROUPS. BUT WE BRING THIS FIGHT AROUND THE NATION.
TO COMMUNITIES ALL OVER, AT THE CLOSING I ' LL MAKE AN NEWS, OUR FIRST FRANCHISE BUSINESS. WEBSITE WHERE WE ' RE GOING TO BRING THIS AS WELL AS SPOKE TO A FEW PEOPLE HERE TODAY INTERESTED. TO HOST EVENTS SIMILAR TO THIS.
SO THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING BIG,.
WHERE THE STANDARD TAKES CONTROL OF. WHERE THE TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION TAKES OVER AS WELL AS.
WE ' LL HAVE A LONG BACKGROUND IN FRONT OF US TO RESOLVE TROUBLES IN A BRAND-NEW MEANS.
I ' M GOING TO CONSIDER THE BIOGRAPHY AND ALSO INTRODUCE. A GREAT PAL OF MINE. WE HAVE SEEMA VERMA BELOW,
OVERSEEING MEDICARE. AND ALSO MEDICATE.IT ' S AMONG THE WORLD ' S LARGEST AGENCIES OF. ANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
SHE WAS THE HEAD OF STATE AS WELL AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF SVC, A NATIONAL. HEALTH POLICY CONSULTING BUSINESS, AS WELL AS FOR GREATER THAN TWENTY YEARS DEALT WITH A RANGE OF. PLAN AS WELL AS STRATEGIC PROJECTS INCLUDING MEDICAID INSURANCE COVERAGE, PUBLIC HEALTH, WORKING WITH GOVERNORS. WORKPLACES, STATE MEDICAID AGENCIES, WELLNESS DEPARTMENTS AS WELL AS EVEN MORE. I ' VE KNOWN SEEMA FOR 10 YEARS, A BUDDY. I COULDN ' T THINK OF ANY PERSON BETTER ABLE TO. LEAD A POSITION THAN CMS WITH THE OBSTACLES WE FACE TODAY. SHE ASSISTED ME WHEN I WAS A STATE SECRETARY. OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS, AS WELL AS I ' M PLEASED SHE
' S BRINGING THAT TO THE FEDERAL LEVEL.PLEASE COME ON UP, SEEMA. [PRAISE] > > GOOD EARLY MORNING. THANKS, BRUCE. MANY THANKS FOR JOINING United States FOR THIS IMPORTANT DISCUSSION. ON EFFORTS AROUND THE OPIOID DILEMMA. AS YOU BEGIN YOUR WORK WITH THIS ALLOW ME TO SHARE.
PERSPECTIVES THAT'HOPEFULLY HELP INSPIRE AND ALSO DRIVE YOU. IN 2015, WE LOST AT
LEAST 64,000 AMERICANS. TO OVERDOSES. THAT ' S 175 AMERICANS PER DAY, 7 SHED LIVES. PER HOUR IN OUR COUNTRY. AND ALSO MEDICATION OVERDOSES ARE NOW THE LEADING REASON.
OF FATALITY AMONGST INDIVIDUALS UNDER 50, REPRESENTING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF OVERDOSE DEATHS EVER.
VIDEOTAPED IN UNITED STATE HISTORY. AS WELL AS THESE STATS ARE DAMAGING, BUT. THIS IS ISN ' T PRACTICALLY THE NUMBERS. IT ' S ABOUT THE IMPACT THAT THE OPIOID ADDICTION
. IS HAVING ON OUR COMMUNITIES, AND OUR FAMILIES.BABIES BEING BORN WITH ADDICTION, AND CURRENTLY.
A RECORD VARIETY OF CHILDREN BECOMING PART OF FOSTER CARE BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS CAN ' T TAKE.
CARE OF THEM. AND ALSO IT ' S CONCERNING THE DISEASES THAT COME
ALONG. WITH A MEDICINE UPSURGE. LIVER DISEASE AND ALSO HIV. AND ALSO I TIN INFORM YOU FROM COLLABORATING WITH THE PRESIDENT. AND MY TIME WITH HIM THAT THIS IS A VERY CRUCIAL CONCERN FOR HIM. AND ALSO HE HAS SHOWN STRONG MANAGEMENTS AND ALSO ASKED. HHS TO DECLARE THE OPIOID SITUATION A NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS EMERGENCY SITUATION. AS WELL AS THIS WAS A CRITICAL ACTION IN CONFRONTING. THE PHENOMENAL CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE.IN FEEDBACK,
ASSISTANT HARGAN AUTHORIZED A PUBLIC. HEALTH EMERGENCY SITUATION HAS BEEN A DRIVING REQUIRE BEHIND HHS '
S INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS THIS EMERGENCY SITUATION. AT CMS WE ' RE FOCUSED ON CRITICAL STEPS TO. HELP OPPOSITE THE TRENDS IN THE OPIOID UPSURGE. ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE DID AS An ACTION. TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS EMERGENCY SITUATION WAS VIA AN NEWS OF WHAT WE TELEPHONE CALL OUR IMD DEMO. WAIVER, A DIRECT OUTCOME OF
THAT PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS EMERGENCY. WHAT THIS WAIVER DOES IS
ALLOWS STATES TO. HAVE GREATER ADAPTABILITY TO STYLE PROGRAMS TO BOOST ACCESS TO TOP QUALITY SCIENTIFICALLY. PROPER THERAPY, AND BECAUSE OF THAT WE HAD THE ABILITY TO IMMEDIATELY PROVIDE WAIVERS. TO BOTH NEW JERSEY AND ALSO UTAH, AND THESE WAIVERS ARE IN FACT BROADENING GAIN ACCESS TO TO TREATMENT. SERVICES AND PERMITTING OUR MEDICAID RECEIVERS TO OBTAIN SERVICES IN PLACES THEY PLACE ' T BEFORE.WE HAVE ALSO AT CMS ATTEMPTED TO CONCENTRATE ON AVOIDANCE. AND ALSO MAKING CERTAIN THAT OUR PRACTITIONERS IN THE PROGRAM HAVE BETTER PRESCRIBING APPROACHES. TOO. FURTHERMORE, WITH CMS WE JUST ADVERTISE OR SIMPLY. RECOMMENDED A GUIDELINE THAT WILL PERMIT OUR PART D PLANS TO NEED PARTICULAR RECIPIENTS TO. GET PRESCRIPTIONS FOR OPIOIDS FROM SIMPLY SELECTED PRESCRIBERS AND ALSO PHARMACIES.
AND SO THIS POLICY ALLOWS OUR HEALTH INSURANCE TO. SET UP MEDICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS FOR MEMBERS IN JEOPARDY FOR OPIOID MISUSE, AND ALSO LIKEWISE ALLOWS.
INTENDS TO LIMITATION CERTAIN ATRISK MEMBERS ' GAIN ACCESS TO TO INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR OPIOIDS. CMS IS SEEKING INNOVATIVE WAYS AND ALSO MODELS. TO MANAGE CHEMICAL ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS, AND ALSO THROUGH CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AS WELL AS MEDICAID. DEVELOPMENT PUT OUT An ASK FOR INFO SO WE CANISTER LEARN THROUGH PEOPLE ON THE FRONT LINES. REGARDING INNOVATIVE WAYS TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES.BUT THESE EFFORTS ARE REALLY SIMPLY A COMPONENT OF. HHS ' S LARGER EFFORTS AROUND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC. AND ALSO LEADING THE CHARGE IS ACTING SECRETARY.
HARGAN. HE HAS BEEN A DRIVING REQUIRE FOR THE AGENCY,. AS WELL AS I CAN TELL YOU FROM COLLABORATING WITH HIM THAT THE NATION IS EXTREMELY LUCKY TO HAVE HIS. MANAGEMENT. TODAY ' S SEMINAR WHICH WILL CERTAINLY UNDOUBTEDLY FURTHER.
OUR COMMON GOAL OF CONNECTING INFORMATION TO SAVE LIVES FROM OPIOID DEPENDENCY WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE.
WITHOUT HIS VISION, HIS SUPPORT OF THE GROUP.
AND HIS FUNCTION TO BRING THE ENTIRE HHS GROUP.
WITH EACH OTHER WITH STAKEHOLDERS FROM THROUGHOUT THE NATION, AND ALSO TO LEVERAGE RESOURCES TO COMBAT.
THIS UPSURGE. I ' M RECOGNIZED TO INTRODUCE HIM
. PRIOR TO BEING VERIFIED AS THE HHS REPLACEMENT. ASSISTANT HE WAS SELECTED TO SERVE AS ACTING ASSISTANT, AN LAWYER IN CHICAGO. AS WELL AS FROM 2003 AND 2007, ACTING SECRETARY HARGAN. OFFERED AT HHS, ULTIMATELY PERFORMING REPLACEMENT ASSISTANT, RECEIVED B.A. FROM HARVARD COLLEGE, J.D. FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL.IT ' S TERRIFIC PLEASURE THAT I PRESENT ACTING. SECRETARY HARGAN. THANK YOU. [PRAISE] > > THANK YOU, MANAGER, FOR THOSE KIND. WORDS AND THANK YOU FOR BEING BELOW RIGHT NOW. IT ' S VERY ESSENTIAL THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR. IS HERE TO SHOW HER SUPPORT FOR THE INITIATIVE, CMS IS ESSENTIAL IN THIS UPSURGE. I INTENDED TO WELCOME YOU. THANKS FOR JOINING US RIGHT HERE. I DESIRE SPECIFICALLY TO THANK BRUCE GREENSTEIN. FOR THE WORK THEY HAVE BEEN DOING PUTTING THIS EVENT WITH EACH OTHER. THANKS QUITE TO YOU AS WELL AS MONA.
MANY THANKS PARTICULARLY TO EVERYONE THAT TRAVELED.
TO D.C. TODAY. YOU HELPED MAKE THIS EVENT SPECIAL. WE ' RE GLAD YOU JOINED US.
THANKS LIKEWISE TO HUNDREDS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE. JOINING US VIA LIVE STREAM, AS WELL AS ARE TUNING IN ACROSS THE
COUNTRY FOR JOINING United States HERE. ALSO WHEREVER YOU ARE. THESE 2 DAYS OF FUNCTION AND DISCUSSION ARE. AN UNPRECEDENTED INITIATIVE TO COMBINE THE VERY BEST INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE AND ALSO BEST MINDS. WE CANISTER FIND, YOU ALL, TO DERIVE NEW UNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT THE OPIOID DILEMMA THAT WE ' RE FACING. WITH EACH OTHER. TODAY ' S SYMPOSIUM REMAINS IN SPECIFIC A GREAT. POSSIBILITY FOR SOME EXTREMELY TALENTED PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO TRADE IDEAS AND ALSO LEARN. FROM EACH OTHER, ABOUT HOW WE CANISTER USAGE DATA IN THIS FIGHT.I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONTEXT IN WHICH WE ' RE. HOLDING THIS COLLECTING RIGHT HERE TODAY AND THE CODE-A-THON, TO IMPROVE WHAT MONA AS WELL AS BRUCE. DISCUSSED EARLIER. AS THEY STATED, THIS BELONGS TO A LARGER. EFFORT TO DO A BETTER JOB HARNESSING THE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF DATA.
WE COLLECT AM IMMENSE QUANTITY OF DATA ON THE. AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR HEALTH AND WELLNESS TREATMENT AS WELL AS HAVE TO STABILIZE WITH PRIVACY AND ALSO SAFETY AND SECURITY. OVER THE INFORMATION AS WELL.IT ' S SUITABLE ONE OF THE FIRST PUBLIC RESULTS. IS FOCUSED ON THE OPIOID SITUATION BECAUSE THAT CRISIS IS A BIG PRIORITY FOR OUR DIVISION. AS YOU LISTENED TO SEMA MENTION EARLIER. WE ' RE FULLY COMMITTED TO LEVERAGING INFORMATION WE.
HAVE AS WELL AS DEALING WITH OUTSIDE STAKEHOLDERS TO MAXIMIZE THE EFFICIENCIES OF THE DATA AND.
ULTIMATELY TO CONSERVE LIVES WHICH IS OUR OBJECTIVE. THE BROADER HHS INITIATIVE, THERE ' S ONE THAT ' S. KIND OF AROUND THIS GET BETTER INSIGHT FROM BETTER DATA, COMPONENT OF
A LARGER ADDITIONAL VISION. AT THE DEPARTMENT CALLED REIMAGINE HHS, OUR FEEDBACK TO HEAD OF STATE TRUMP ' S REQUIRE EACH. CUPBOARD DIVISION TO COME UP WITH STRATEGY FOR REFORMING ITS
FUNCTIONS AS WELL AS BETTER ACCOMPLISHING. ITS CORE MISSION. WE ' VE TAKEN THIS OPPORTUNITY AT HHS TO ACTION
. BACK, CHECK OUT HOW THE DIVISION DEALS WITH'An EVERYDAY BASIS AND THINK HOW WE CAN MORE. PROPERLY ACCOMPLISH CRITICAL MISSIONS WE HAVE RIGHT HERE. AND ONE METHOD WE CONTAINER DO THAT IS BY BETTER UNDERSTANDING. OUR WORK THROUGH BETTER DATA. SO WHEN WE WERE GIVEN THE JOB TO REIMAGINE.
THE DEPARTMENT, AMONG THE CORE THINGS WE KNEW WE HAD TO PERFORM WAS FIND OUT HOW TO USAGE. THE INFORMATION WE HAVE MORE EFFECTIVELY.AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT THIS EFFORT LED BY BRUCE. AND ALSO MONA TO PAY DIVIDENDS IN FUNCTION ACROSS THE DEPARTMENT. BUT SIMPLY AS WE INTEND TO UTILIZE MAKING USE OF. OUR DATA ACROSS HHS, WE ' RE ALSO BENT ON INCREASING OUR FOCUS AND ALSO OUR CONTROL. ON ALL OF OUR EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE OPIOID SITUATION. IT IS A THREAT WE BELIEVE TO THE THREE OBJECTIVES. WE HAVE AS A DIVISION, BUILDING HEALTHIER INDIVIDUALS, STRONGER COMMUNITIES, AND SAFER COUNTRY. SO WE ' RE ENGAGED WITH THE OPIOID CRISIS ACROSS. THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT. EVERY OPERATING DIVISION, EVERY COMPANY, THAT '
S. WHATA WE CALL THEM, IN HEALTH TREATMENT, HUMAN BEING SOLUTIONS, PUBLIC WELLNESS, MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COORDINATED
. WITH A FIVE FACTOR STRATEGY.ONE OF THE FIVE POINTS
I ' M SATISFIED TO NOTE IS. BETTER DATA ON THE EPIDEMIC. IT ' S FOUNDATIONAL.WE CONTAINER'' T FIND THE EPIDEMIC IF WE DON ' T KNOW WHAT WE ' RE CONFRONTING. THE OTHERSERS ARE MUCH BETTER DISCOMFORT MANAGEMENT, STUDY, TARGETING AND ALSO THERAPY AS WELL AS RECUPERATION SOLUTIONS, THE 5 POINTS OF THE STRATEGY, BUT BETTER INFORMATION IS GREATER THAN SIMPLY 20% OF OUR STRATEGY. I'' M An ATTORNEY BUT I DO A LITTLE MATHEMATICS THERE, 20 %. THE ENTIRE TECHNIQUE IS BASED ON BEST SCIENCE CONCERNING HOW THIS SITUATION IS OCCURRING, WHAT POPULATIONS IT'' S HURTING, WHAT INTERVENTIONS WORK BEST. I WISH TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT HOW INFORMATION EDUCATES EACH ELEMENT OF THAT STRATEGY. FIRST, THE BETTER INFORMATION FACTOR, WHICH IS OBVIOUS.WE PLAY A CORE FUNCTION IN IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH MONITORING TO IMPROVE INFORMATION,
AND REPORTING ON THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC ITSELF. ON MONDAY, AS A MATTER OF FACT, ALONG WITH THE ADMINISTRATOR I SAW THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE FACILITIES FOR CONDITION CONTROL AS WELL AS PREVENTION IN ATLANTA, WHERESEEMA AND BRENDA AND I MET ON THE FUNCTION CDC IS DOING, THE EYES AND ALSO EARS OF THE DEPARTMENT TAKING CARE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, DETERMINING WHAT ' S GOING ON IN STIPULATIONS OF HEALTHCARE. THEY COLLABORATE WITH STATE AND ALSO CITY GOVERNMENTS. SO THEY ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE THE ROLODEX OUT TO ALL THE STATE AS WELL AS AREAS, TO HANDLE THEM AS WELL. THEY GATHER A GREAT DEAL OF KEY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CRISIS. THEY DO SO AS SWIFTLY AS THEY CONTAINER AND ALSO OBTAIN THE VERY BEST INSIGHTS FROM THE DATA THEY HAVE.
THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY HAVE ACCESSIBILITY TO THE IMMENSE AMOUNT OF DATA THAT SEEMA SEES AT CMS.WE WERE YAPPING TO SEE TO IT THERE WAS A BILATERAL DISCUSSION BETWEEN DR. FITZGERALD AND MANAGER VERMA TO
MAKE CERTAIN THEY WERE SPEAKING WITH EACH OTHER. WE HAVE THE EYES AS WELL AS EARS ON ONE HAND AND THE VARIOUS OTHER THE INCENTIVE FRAMEWORK, SO A DISCUSSION BETWEEN THEM CANISTER BE PROFOUNDLY REWARDING. WE SAW CDC ' S USE INFORMATION FROM DR. FITZGERALD, CDC ' S VULNERABILITY MAPS THEY CALL THEM, REGION LEVEL DANGER DESIGN TO EMPHASIZE COUNTIES AND REGIONS OF THE NATION VULNERABLE TO HIV CONTAMINATED AS WELL AS HEPATITIS C BREAK OUTS AS A RESULT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE. WE KNOW STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS HAVE ALREADY USED THIS TASK TO NOTIFY NEW PREVENTION APPROACHES TO AVOID INFECTIONS AS WELL AS SAVE LIVES.AND THE
SUGGESTION FOR THE SUSCEPTABILITY MAPPING CAME OUT OF CDC PARTICIPATION AND UNFORTUNATE BREAK OUT OF SCREEN IN INDIANA.
FANTASTIC TO SEE DR. ADAMS BELOW, ANOTHER PERSON GREAT SHOW FROM SENIOR MANAGEMENT AT HHS. WE EXPECT ADVANCES AND CONTINUING THE PROGRESS IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS TO MAKE THAT DATA MORE OBTAINABLE AS WELL AS USABLE TO EVERYONE PARTICIPATED IN THIS FIGHT. CURRENTLY, DISCOMFORT ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO IMPORTANT.
WITH CMS BEING THE BIGGEST PAYER FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS CARE SOLUTIONS ACTUALLY ON THE PLANET, IN AMERICA BUT ALSO IN THE WORLD, IT ' S CRUCIAL WE ' RE. RECOGNIZING AS WELL AS COVERING EFFICIENT DISCOMFORT TREATMENT, NOT PUSHING MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS VERY EASY SOLUTIONS. THAT EXPANDS PAST CMS OF PROGRAM,'TO CDC ' S. COLLABORATE WITH SUGGESTING STANDARDS WHICH I THINK HAVE BEEN AN ENORMOUS SUCCESS, NIH ' S STUDY. RIGHT INTO THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF PAIN AND OUR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH ' S WORK STANDING UP THE. PAIN MONITORING TASK REQUIRE. SPECIFICALLY, WE ' VE ALREADY HAD SOME FEELING. WHAT THE OUTCOMES ARE FOR VARIOUS KINDS OF PAIN TREATMENT AS WELL AS WHAT PARTS OF THE NATION SEE. ESSENTIALLY PRESCRIBING OF OPIOID AS WELL AS NON-OPIOID CHOICES. BUT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE ISSUES EVEN. BETTER THAN WE DO NOW.DATA NATURALLY IS ALSO AT THE CORE OF MUCH. OF THE SCIENTIFIC FUNCTION WE DO AT HHS OBVIOUSLY, THROUGH PLACES LIKE NIH, FDA AND CDC, RESEARCH STUDY,. ACCEPT FUNDS AS WELL AS EDUCATE ON NEW THERAPY FOR DISCOMFORT AND DEPENDENCY.
THE DATA EDUCATES OUR LARGER UNDERSTANDING. OF THE DILEMMA AS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS TROUBLE. HOW THE CHALLENGES
OF THE DISCOMFORT AND DEPENDENCY. COMMUNICATE WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS, WITH WORK, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, AS WELL AS HUMAN SOLUTIONS. THAT WE AID GIVE LIKE FOSTER TREATMENT AND ALSO KID WELFARE.SO WITH AN UPSURGE THAT ' S REGULARLY ALTERING,. NEW STUDY IS ALWAYS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS THAT IT ' S HAVING ON OUR CULTURE.
OVERALL. IT ' S NOT JUST FOCUSED ON THE PRIVATE BUT. ALSO ON THE SYSTEMS THAT'DISCOMFORT AS WELL AS ADDICTION HOW THEY
IMPACT THE LARGEST SYSTEMS WE SEE. WITHIN THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE PUBLIC WELLNESS SYSTEMS. ALSO, OVERDOSE REVERSING MEDICINES, IT ' S CRUCIAL. THERE TOO. MOST OF US KNOW OVERDOSE-REVERSING MEDICATIONS CONSERVED. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN LIVES, AS WELL AS THAT EACH AND EVERY SINGLE LIFE ISSUES. IT ' S WHY WE ' RE HERE. BUT WE CANISTER CONSERVE A LOT MORE LIVES BY ENSURING. THAT OVERDOSE REVERSERS ARE CONVENIENTLY OFFERED IN PLACES THEY ARE THE MAJORITY OF NEEDED. IN THIS ROOM HHS ' S DUTY IS TO SUPPORT STATE. AND CITY GOVERNMENTS, AS WELL AS PRIVATE ACTORS, IN GIVING THOSE DRUGS.
AND WE NEED GREAT INFORMATION AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. TO ACCOMPLISH THAT. BETTER DATA CAN AID United States UNDERSTAND THE RESULTS. OF DIFFERENT STATE PLANS TO FACE THE EPIDEMIC AS WELL.LIKE STANDING ORDERS FOR NALOXONE. 5TH AS WELL AS LAST, BETTER PREVENTION THERAPY. AND ALSO RECUPERATION SOLUTION, INFORMATION BELOW IS ALSO CRUCIAL. WHERE DO WE HAVE UNMET TREATMENT DEMAND? WHERE ARE THE SPACES
IN SOLUTIONS? WITH HHS INVESTING HUNDREDS OF MANY MILLIONS OF.
DOLLARS EACH YEAR TO ASSISTANCE AVOIDANCE, TREATMENT AND RECUPERATION WE HAVE TO
HAVE HIGH QUALITY DATA. TO NOTIFY CHOICES WHERE OUR RESOURCES A LOT OF NEEDED. THOUSANDS OF MANY MILLIONS IS A GOOD DEAL OF MONEY. TILL YOU SPREAD IT OUT THE COUNTRY THE SIZE OF A REGION WITH HUNDREDS OF MANY MILLIONS OF. INDIVIDUALS IN IT. SO WE REQUIREMENT TO KNOW HOW THE RESOURCES ARE TARGETED. AND WHERE WE SHOULD BE SENDING THEM. AS WELL AS AS I SAID, TOP-NOTCH INFORMATION AND ALSO EVALUATION.
CANISTER HELP INFORM OUR SUPPORT FOR SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS OR INTERVENTIONS TO MAKE SURE WE ' RE.
SPENDING WISELY, NOT JUST IN THE RIGHT POSITIONS BUT ALSO FOR THE RIGHT THINGS. TALKING OF COSTS CAREFULLY, I WAS AT THE.
WHITE RESIDENCE THIS PAST THURSDAY TO GET An EXTREMELY GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION FROM HEAD OF STATE TRUMP.
HE ' S CONTRIBUTED HIS THIRD QUARTER INCOME THIS. QUARTER TO THE OPIOID INITIATIVES AT HHS.SPECIFICALLY, WE ' LL BE UTILIZING THAT CASH TO.
FUND PLANNING AS WELL AS STYLE OF A LARGE SCALE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING PROJECT, HIGHLIGHTING THE. THREATS OF OPIOID ADDICTION. WHICH THE HEAD OF STATE CALLED FOR IN THE OPIOID.
SPEECH THAT HE PROVIDED'AT THE END OF OCTOBER. HHS IS GOING TO BE WORKING CLOSELY ON THAT PARTICULAR. INITIATIVE WITH THE WHITE RESIDENCE BECAUSE WE HAVE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS STRATEGISTS HERE WHO BRING A. GREAT DEAL OF PERTINENT KNOW-HOW TO THE TABLE.
CDC, FOR INSTANCE, HAS DONE A GREAT OFFER OF. RESEARCH ON WHAT KINDS OF AVOIDANCE MESSAGES WORK
AND HOW THEY CANISTER BE TARGETED. SIMPLY THINK ABOUT THE SUCCESS THAT THEY ' VE HAD.
OVER YEARS WITH ANTI-SMOKING AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS. EARLIER THIS YEAR THEY LAUNCHED THE RX RECOGNITION. PROJECT, THAT IN FACT JUST INTRODUCED A FEW WEEKS AGO. WHICH HIGHLIGHTS INDIVIDUALS THAT EXPERIENCED.
FROM OPIOID DEPENDENCY, WHICH PROJECT IS SIMPLY THE BEGINNING OF OUR EFFORTS ON THAT. FRONT. THE ADVANCED MODERN TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE TODAY AND. ASSURANCE OF THE BIG DATA OFFER United States HOPE AS WELL AS UNPRECEDENTED CAPACITY TO TARGET TRICK TARGET MARKET, DRIVE RECOGNITION. AND BEHAVIORAL ADJUSTMENT.
COMPONENT OF WHAT ' S SPECIAL REGARDING THE CODE-A-THON.
TODAY WE ' RE BRINGING TOGETHER DIVERSE FORMERLY SILOED COLLECTIONS OF INFORMATION, LOTS FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME,.
ALONGSIDE GREAT MINDS TO CONSIDER THEM.AS I SAID, WE ' RE COMMITTED TO DOING OUR COMPONENT. AT HHS, BUT WE NOTE WE ALSO APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT ' S BEING DONE OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT,.
REALLY THIS IS IN WHICH THE PERFORMANCE IS GOING TO
ORIGINATE FROM IN STATE AND CITIZEN GOVERNMENTS,.
NON-PROFITS AS WELL AS THE ECONOMIC SECTOR. SO WE ' RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU BELOW RIGHT NOW. WE EXPECT TALKING WITH YOU ABOUT. HOW WE CAN SERVE YOU FAR BETTER ON THE DATA FRONT. AND SOMETIMES ALL THAT DATA CONTAINER GET IMPERSONAL.
I WISH TO END BY REMINDING EVERYONE RIGHT HERE WHAT. WE UNDERSTAND. THIS SITUATION IS ABOUT PEOPLE, CUTTING SHORT. THE LIVES OF AMERICANS, AFFECTING MILLIONS MORE. ADDICTION AND OPIOID ADDICTION IN PARTICULAR. HITS RESIDENCE FOR ME AS WELL AS MY FAMILY MEMBERS. I EXPANDED UP IN A VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS,. PILES, 800 PEOPLE, A COUNTRY FARMING AREA, OPIOID DEPENDENCY AND MATERIAL ABUSE AFFLICTED. FAMILIES THERE FOR YEARS.
YEARS BACK I HAD THE FIRST CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER THAT. DIED AFTER A YEARS LONG HAVE PROBLEM WITH PRESCRIPTION OPIOIDS. THE FIRST, NOT THE LAST. AFTER I TALKED TO PRESIDENT TRUMP LAST WEEK. AND ALSO ACCEPTED THE CHECK, MY PHONE BUZZED FROM A COUSIN THAT SENT OUT ME PICTURES OF HIS BROTHER.I ' M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT WOULD HAVE SOUNDED CRAZIER. WHEN I WAS EXPANDING UP, SOMEDAY I WOULD BE STANDING IN WASHINGTON, D.C. REGARDING READY TO BEGIN SOMETHING CALLED A. CODE-A-THON, WITH WORLD CLASS COMPUTER DESIGNERS, OR THAT THOSE GREAT MINDS WOULD BE GATHERED. TO CHALLENGE A CHALLENGE THAT WE KNEW WELL BACK IN
MOUNDS, A MEDICINE CRISIS NOW SPREAD OUT FROM. SHORE TO COASTLINE AS WELL AS TAKES 10S OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN LIVES EACH WE ' RE, GREATER THAN A. HUNDRED ON A DAILY BASIS. I ' M TREMENDOUSLY GRATEFUL TO EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE. TODAY AND YOU ' RE ALL DOING YOUR COMPONENT. SO MANY THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, FOR YOUR. INSIGHT AS WELL AS COMMITMENT TO DEFEATING THIS EPIDEMIC.WE AT'HHS, I IN PARTICULAR, DEEPLY APPRECIATE.'YOUR WORK. WE HOPE TOGETHER WE CANISTER ASSIST PROVIDE AMERICANS. THE DEVICES THEY NEED TO DEFEAT THIS SITUATION IN THEIR OWN FAMILIES AND ALSO COMMUNITIES.
SO YOU HAVE A GENUINE CHANCE TO MAKE REAL PROGRESSION.
HERE TODAY. YOU HAVE OUR ASSISTANCE COMPLETELY FOR THE NEXT. 2 DAYS. SO LET ' S REACH IT.
THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] > > MANY THANKS, SECRETARY HARGAN, FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. IT ' S MY SATISFACTION TO PRESENT SECRETARY
MARYLOU. SUDDERS, WHO IS An ASSISTANT OF HEALTH AND ALSO HUMAN BEING SOLUTIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS. SHE LEADS A BIG EXEC FIRM IN STATE. GOVERNMENT, MANAGING $22 BILLION STATE BUDGET, 12 AGENCIES, 22,000 PUBLIC SERVANTS. EXPERTLY TRAINED AS A
SOCIAL WORKER,. LEADING THE STATE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND REPUBLIC INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS THE OPIOID UPSURGE. [APPLAUSE] > > GREAT EARLY MORNING, EVERYONE. BEGIN, GOOD MORNING. > > EXCELLENT MORNING. > > YOU ' RE ABOUT TO SEE HOW TECHNICALLY. UNASTUTE I AM WITH THIS BUTTON.IT ' S MY DISTINCTIVE ADVANTAGE TO BE WITH YOU. THIS MORNING. IN MASSACHUSETTS WE ' RE> APPRECIATIVE SIGNIFICANTLY. OF OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FEDERAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WE >> DEAL WITH THE OPIOID UPSURGE. OK.
SORRY. THERE WE GO.
CURRENTLY YOU CAN SEE HOW UNASTUTE I AM. BUT I COMPREHEND THE POWER OF DATA. IN MASSACHUSETTS'UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF GUV. BAKER, WE BELIEVE EXTREMELY MUCH IN THE POWER OF DATA FORMED BY THE POWER OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.AND THAT TOGETHER WE WILL TRANSFORM THE TIDE OF. THE OPIOID UPSURGE. ADDICTION IS An ILLNESS, CONSTANTLY RELAPSING. ILLNESS, ONE WE REQUIREMENT TURN TOWARDS THE INDIVIDUAL AS WELL AS NOT FAR FROM THEM, AS WE HANDLE THIS. DILEMMA. IT TAKES LEADERSHIP, IT TAKES ALL OF United States. I ' M
DEFINITELY NOT ALL RIGHT. SORRY.
I CAN ' T SEE IT. THIS IS MASSACHUSETTS, EXTREMELY COMPARABLE TO OTHER. STATES. IN 2016, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 2190 PEOPLE. WILL PASS AWAY OF UNINTENTIONAL OR UNINTENDED OPIOID OVERDOSE, UPSURGE, SIX PEOPLE PASS AWAY A DAY,. AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ' S BEEN A 450% INCREASE IN OVERDOSES IN 1 * 6 YEARS. 300 PERCENT INCREASE IN NON-FATAL OVERDOSE IN BETWEEN 2011 AND 2015.
PRIOR TO GUV BAKER IN 2015 THIS WAS AVAILABLE. IN MASSACHUSETTS BUT PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS FELT IT WAS STIGMATIZING.'FOUR TIMES A YEAR NOW WE RELEASE THE DATA.
UNFORTUNATELY AS PAPERS LIKE TO PERFORM THEY. ALWAYS HAVE CATCHY TITLE, THE FATALITY REPORT.SO 4 TIMES A YEAR WE PUT OUT THIS INFORMATION,.
IT IS AVAILABLE BY TOWN, BY REGION, AS WELL AS ROLLS UP TO STATE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT. IN HANDLING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC IT ' S IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO HAVE AS MUCH PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.
INFORMATION. WE ALSO USE PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS, FOR THOSE. THAT ARE SCIENTISTS YOU KNOW THERE ' S OFTEN A HOLD-UP IN THE RESOLUTION OF A DEATH BY. MEDICAL EXAMINER.SO WE USAGE THE AVAILABLE THAT WE HAVE IN ORDER. TO FIGURE OUT THROUGH PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS WHAT OUR COMPANY BELIEVE THE DEATH INFORMATION WILL BE FOR.
THE REPUBLIC FOR THAT YEAR. AS WELL AS THAT ' S THE RED BAR ON THIS.
SO AS THE DATA COMES
IN FROM THE MEDICAL INSPECTORS,.
WE ACTUALLY UPDATE THIS DETAILS. THE GOVERNOR, WHEN HE WAS COMPETING WORKPLACE,. A REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN IN A VERY DEMOCRATIC STATE, A PERSON TO TAKE HIM ASIDE, CANISTER I TALK WITH YOU REGARDING.
THESE BILLS, ABOUT MY ENJOYED ONE, CONTAINER I TALK WITH YOU REGARDING WHAT ' S HAPPENING? HE FIRST RELIED ON HE ' S A MEDICAL CARE GUY,. ANYBODY THAT RECOGNIZES HIM WOULD KNOW THAT CONCERNING HIM. HE ' S RECOGNIZED TO BE ON PRESIDENT TRUMP ' S OPIOID. COMPENSATION THIS PAST YEAR. HE GOT TO OUT TO THE INDIVIDUALS HE RECOGNIZED,.
PEOPLE OF INDUSTRY, HEADS OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES, ASKED THEM ABOUT THESE TABLETS, AS WELL AS THEY WEREN ' T SEEING.
THIS.HE WAS HEARING THIS AT THE GROUND, HEARING. THIS FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF FAMILIES. THEREFORE I WAS INSTRUCTING IN THOSE DAYS AT BOSTON. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL FUNCTION. HE ASKED IF'I WOULD ASSEMBLE A SMALL WHITE. PAPER FOR HIM, LIKE WHAT
WAS IT ABOUT THESE TABLETS? AND WHAT HE WAS WAS IN ALARMING, IT ' S ALMOST. AN OPIOID FOR EVERY CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLICS OF MASSACHUSETTS. HE WAS STUNNED.
BEGINNING WITH HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN JANUARY. OF 2015, HE BILLED ME WITH A FUNCTIONING GROUP, 18 PARTICIPANT PROFESSIONAL PANEL THAT REALLY STOOD FOR. THE BREADTH AS WELL AS DEPTH OF HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS, INDIVIDUALS THAT BELIEVE ABSTAINING IS THE ONLY TYPE OF. TREATMENT, INDIVIDUALS WHO COUNT ON MEDICATION HELPED THERAPY, PEOPLE WHO LOST HOUSEHOLDS.
MEMBERS AND SO FORTH. MY ABILITIES CAME WITH EACH OTHER KEEPING THE TEAM. TODAY, HELD 4 SITUATION, 1100 PEOPLE, EXAMINED ALL THE RESEARCH WE COULD GET OUR. HANDS ON. AND IN JUNE, TURNED OUT THE GUV ' S PLAN. FOR ADJUSTMENT. I HAVE REALLY LISTED, YOU ' LL SEE I ' LL PROVIDE. YOU THE SITE, ALL OF OUR DETAILS IS AVAILABLE TO EVERY ONE OF YOU, DO NOT HESITATE TO PLAGIARIZE,.'TAKE IT, USE IT
IN ANY METHOD THAT ' S VALUABLE TO YOU.HE ROLLED OUT THE ACTION PLAN IN JUNE OF 2015. 65 ACTIVITY ITEMS, APPLYING 55 OF THEM OURSELVES. WITH THE EVIDENT OBJECTIVE TO REDUCE MAGNITUDE AS WELL AS INTENSITY OF INJURY AS WELL AS DECREASE'OPIOID OVERDOSE.
DEATH. IF WE COULD TACKLE OUR ARMS AROUND FENTANYL,. I ' LL GET TO TO THAT. WE NEGOTIATED AN 1115 MEDICARE WAIVER FOR. THERAPY FOR CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS BY $160 MILLION OVER 4 YEARS, THE GOVERNOR FILED.
REGULATION BASED ON INFORMATION ON NOVEMBER 14 BECAUSE OUR TEAM BELIEVE YOU HAVE TO INTERRUPT THE STANDING. QUO IF YOU INTENDED TO CONSERVE LIVES.
AS WELL AS WE ' RE SEEKING FEDERAL REGULATORY ALLEVIATION. AS A RESULT OF THE NATIONAL AFFIRMATION. O.K.. FOR THE DATA GEEKS, THIS IS YOUR GRAPH. PAST THE QUARTERLY PICTURES AND ALSO PICKING.
UP ON SOMETHING BRUCE HAD STATED, WE'ALSO WISHED TO REALLY ASSESS THE EPIDEMIC TO UNDERSTAND. AT A MUCH DEEPER LEVEL THE ORIGIN AND ALSO POPULATIONS THE MAJORITY OF IN JEOPARDY. DUE TO THE FACT THAT OF REGULATIONS THAT WE DESCRIBED. AS CHAPTER 55, OUR EFFORT AT TAKING TOGETHER SILOS OF DETAILS TO REALLY DIG
DEEP IN. UNDERSTANDING THE OPIOID UPSURGE, I APPROACHED THE LEGISLATURE AS WELL AS ASKED THEM FOR SPECIAL.
REGULATION THAT ESSENTIALLY REQUIRED THAT KIND OF BRINGING TOGETHER ALL THOSE TEAMS.
OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD THEIR PROTECTED INFORMATION TO ENSURE THAT WE COULD REALLY UNDERSTAND GREATER.
ROOT CAUSES.BASICALLY I DO HAVE ACCESSIBILITY TO THE MEDICATE. DATA, TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION, TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS, TO KID WELFARE INFORMATION AS WELL AS THE LIKE. AND ALSO EVEN I IN MY OWN AGENCY WOULD HAVE LAWYERS. SAY TO ME, WELL, WE HAVE THIS INDIVIDUAL ARRANGEMENT THAT DOESN ' T TRULY PERMIT United States TO SHARE THE.
DETAILS, AND ALSO BECAUSE I ' M A TOTALLY QUICK-TEMPERED PEOPLE AND ALSO WE HAVE AN UPSURGE. AT HAND, I MOSTED LIKELY TO THE LEGISLATURE TO GET TYPE OF PROTECTIVE REGULATIONS TO ALLOW ME. TO BRING'TOGETHER THIS DATA.CHAPTER 55 OF THE ACT, YOU CAN DO THIS', STATES. YOU CAN DO THIS. SO PHASE 55 OF THE ACT OF 2015 THE SECRETARY. WITH ANALYZING HISTORY, INCLUDING COURTORDERED THERAPY OR TREATMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
SYSTEMS OF PERSONS IN THE TYPICAL RICHES WHO SUFFERED FATAL OVERDOSES IN FISCAL YEAR. 2014. THIS WEB SITE YOU CAN PULL DOWN ALL OF THE.
TWO REPORTS, AND ALSO WE DO SOME DATA BRIEFS. FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN THE FALL OF 2016, AS WELL AS.
AS FOR WE KNOW IT ' S THE ONLY REPORT IN THE COUNTRY THAT EXAMINED EVEN MORE THAN 20 DATASETS.
FROM ACROSS STATE GOVERNMENT AND ALSO COUNTIES TO PRESENT
NEW ESTIMATES OF THE PERCENT. OF MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS WITH AN OPIOID USAGE PROBLEM. WE ' VE USED THE DATA AND WILL CERTAINLY CONTINUE TO USAGE. THE INFORMATION FROM THESE RECORDS TO DIRECT OUR EFFORTS TO ASSISTANCE COMMUNITIES AND ALSO RESIDENTS.
MOST DIFFICULT HIT FROM THE EPIDEMIC. THIS PAST AUGUST, WE'LAUNCHED THE MOST RECENT UPDATE. OF THE CHAPTER 55 REPORT AND NOW WE BRING TOGETHER MORE THAN 45 DATASETS THROUGHOUT STATE.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT PROVIDE RESIDENTS, POLICYMAKERS AS WELL AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS WITH BRAND-NEW INFO. ON THE MOVE OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC.THE 100 PAGE EVALUATION ASSESSES INFORMATION TRENDS.
FROM 2011 TO 2015, AS WELL AS GIVES AN REVIEW OF RESIDENTS AT GREATEST DANGER. IT ADDITIONALLY SUPPLIES ESTIMATES AND ALSO COMPREHENSIVE DANGERS.
RELATED TO NON-FATAL OPIOID OVERDOSES AND ALSO
ANALYZES HOW PROCEEDED USE PRESCRIPTION. OPIOIDS IS RELATED TO OPIOID-RELATED FATALITY, ALLOWED FOR A MORE FULL IMAGE.
AS WELL AS OFFERS THE INFO TO CHANGE AS WELL AS REFINE EFFORTS TO TARGET RESOURCES AND ALSO PRIORITIZE
. OUR TREATMENTS. I ' M GOING TO SHARE A FEW OF THE SEARCHINGS FOR FROM. THIS INFORMATION WHICH WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ASSEMBLE. FOR THE FIRST TIME WE HAD A BASELINE, APPROXIMATELY. 4'% OF THE PEOPLE MATURE 11 AS WELL AS OLDER HAVE AN OPIOID USE PROBLEM IN MASSACHUSETTS. AS YOU TIN SEE THERE ' S A SHARP BOOST IN. 2013. THIS APPROXIMATE IS GREATER THAN DUAL PREVIOUSLY. REPORTED FIGURES AS WELL AS ESTIMATES. THIS IS THE POWER OF INFORMATION. THIS CHART REVEALS FOR THOSE THAT PASSED AWAY, THE MEAN.
SIZE OF TIME FROM INITIAL PRESCRIPTION TO OPIOID-RELATED
OVERDOSE FATALITY WAS 36 MONTHS. TELLING US THAT TIME IS ESSENTIAL. REPEAT OVERDOSES PREVAILED IN
THE INDIVIDUALS. IN THE DATA WE CHECKED OUT WITH PRACTICALLY 15% HAVING SEVERAL REPEAT OVERDOSES DURING. THE ONE YEAR FOLLOW-UP DURATION AS WELL AS ALMOST 20% THROUGHOUT THE TWOYEAR FOLLOWUP PERIOD.WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS IS AN UNDERESTIMATE. AGAIN, THIS IS ALL FROM BRINGING THESE DATASETS. TOGETHER. AS WELL AS WE KNOW THAT NEARLY
1 IN 10 DIE WITHIN. TWO YEARS AFTER FIRST NON-FATAL OVERDOSE. SO AMONG THE IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF OUR. ADMINISTRATION, WE WERE STRUCTURE CAPABILITY, PERSON CAPABILITY, ACCESS CAPABILITY IN ANY WAY DEGREES. WITHIN OUR SYSTEM, AS WE GO ONWARD WE ' LL TARGET RESOURCES TO HIGHEST DANGER POPULACE. AS WE EXPAND ACCESS. WE ' LL SHOW YOU THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE THREAT POPULATIONS. IN MASSACHUSETTS. I INTEND TO BE CLEAR, EVERY STATE IS DIFFERENT. OPIOID DEATH RATE IS 120 TIMES GREATER FOR.'INDIVIDUAL WITH BACKGROUND OF INCARCERATION, THAT ' S PROBABLY NOT THAT ALARMING TO ANY PERSON. IN THIS ROOM BECAUSE WE KNOW NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS WITH ADDICTIONS HAVE WOUND UP IN OUR CRIMINAL. JUSTICE SYSTEMS INSTEAD OF WITHIN OUR TREATMENT SYSTEMS.AND IT ' S 30 TIMES HIGHER FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE. HERE ' S SOME INFORMATION THAT MAY NOT BE AS. EASILY EVIDENT TO SOME INDIVIDUALS. THE RISK OF A FATAL OPIOID-RELATED OVERDOSE. IS 6 TIMES HIGHER FOR PERSON
DIAGNOSED WITH A SEVERE MENTAL DISORDER, THREE TIMES HIGHER.
FOR THOSE DETECTED WITH CLINICAL DEPRESSION, EDUCATING OPERATE IN MASSACHUSETTS AROUND UNITING. INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION AND REALLY FOCUSING ON CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS.
RATE RISES SHARPLY AFTER DELIVERY FOR. MATERIAL USE PROBLEM MOMMY, SHOCKING TO US ACTUALLY, 82% OF MOTHERS WHO OVERDOSED. THROUGHOUT MATERNITY OR WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF POSTPARTUM ALSO HAD A MEDICAL DIAGNOSES OF CLINICAL DEPRESSION. SO MASSACHUSETTS APPROACH IN THE FIRST REGULATION. WE PASSED WAS REALLY A PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS AVOIDANCE METHOD, AVOIDANCE, INTERVENTION, TREATMENT.
AS WELL AS RECUPERATION. AND ALSO COMPONENT OF OUR LAW THAT WE COME ON MARCH. OF 2016 WHICH APPEARS LIKE LIGHT YEARS AGO WAS TO DEVELOP A 7 DAY RESTRICTION, WHICH WAS FIRST IN. THE COUNTRY, SO FIRST-TIME PRESCRIPTIONS FOR OPIOIDS IN MASSACHUSETTS ARE 7 DAYS FOR ADULTS,.
FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME PRESCRIPTION, AND 7 DAYS ALWAYS FOR YOUTH.WE ARE LIKEWISE THE ONLY STATE IN THE NATION.
WHERE YOU CAN ' T GRADUATE FROM MEDICAL COLLEGE, NURSING COLLEGE, DENTAL COLLEGE, OR DOCTOR. ASSISTANT SCHOOL OR PHARMACY WITHOUT TAKING A REQUIRED TRAINING COURSE ON OPIOID TREATMENT AND ALSO PAIN. MANAGEMENT. WE RECENTLY REVEALED A SIMILAR EDUCATION AND LEARNING.
CAMPAIGN WITH NINE SCHOOLS OF SOCIAL WORK IN MASSACHUSETTS BECAUSE SOCIAL WORKERS ARE. THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CLINICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES. WE ALSO ARE JUST ONE OF A HANDFUL OF STATES. WHERE THE PROBLEM OF OBTAINING RELICENSED IF YOU ' RE A PRESCRIBER YOU NEED TO PASS A. COURSE IN OPIOID THERAPY AND ALSO PAIN MANAGEMENT AS COMPONENT OF YOUR CEUs.
AND ALSO I ' M GOING TO TYPE OF UPRIGHT I ' M VIEWING. MY TIME. HOW AM I DOING? I GUARANTEED I ' D STAY ON TIME. PRESCRIPTION MONITORING. SO WHEN I BECAME SECRETARY, I WAS GOING AROUND. SPEAKING REGARDING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC WITH THE GUV, WE YAPPED CONCERNING OUR PRESCRIPTION. KEEPING AN EYE ON PROGRAM.
AMONG THE DETAILS IN MASSACHUSETTS IS WE OFTEN. HOME GROW DETAILS AS WELL AS HAVE THE OLDEST PRESCRIPTION TRACKING PROGRAM IN THE UNITED STATES', WE. HAD THE FIRST AND OLDEST.SO BY THE TIME YOU GOT TO 2015, 2016, YOU.
ALSO REALIZED YOUR PRESCRIPTION SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM NOT ONLY WAS THE OLDEST AND FIRST,.
IT WAS ALSO PROBABLY THE THE MAJORITY OF CLUNKY, IN THE SENSE IT WAS DIFFICULT
FOR PRESCRIBERS TO. USAGE. AND ALSO AS WE HAD AS WE ANNOUNCED OUR REGULATIONS,. WHICH WOULD REQUIRE ALL PRESCRIBERS TO USAGE THE PMP BEFORE ISSUING
ANY PRESCRIPTION SURVEILLANCE.
PROGRAM, YOU CAN VISUALIZE HOW WELL GOT THAT WAS FROM THE PRESCRIBER NEIGHBORHOOD THAT. STATED IT TOOK MINS, I ' LL NEVER FORGET, 20 CLICKS, AT LEAST 25 MINS PRIOR TO THEY COULD. HOP ON TO THE PMP TO USAGE IT.
SO I SAID, PENALTY, WE OBTAIN IT. WE PASSED REGULATION REQUIRING THAT YOU REQUIRED. TO USAGE THE PMP, AND WENT AS WELL AS ESTABLISHED A NEW PMP AS WELL AS DID IT WITHIN 18 MONTHS BECAUSE. AS WE KNOW NOW THERE ' S PMPs THAT YOU CONTAINER BUY OFF THE SHELF.SO THE OBJECTIVE FOR CREATING AND ALSO VIEWING THE. MassPAT, EVERYTHING HAS A CHARMING NAME. TO OFFER WELLNESS CARE COMPANY THE DEVICE TO AID. THEM IN CLINICAL METHOD AND ALSO BECOME PART OF THE SOLUTION.
OUR STATE LAW NOW NEEDS PRESCRIBERS TO. INSPECT THE MASS RUB BEFORE WRITING ANY NEW OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS. BECAUSE THE SYSTEM HAS ACTUALLY LAUNCHED THERE HAVE BEEN.
MORE THAN 6.5 MILLION SEARCHES ON MASS RUB, WITH A WEEKLY STANDARDS OF APPROXIMATELY 125,000. SEARCHES CONDUCTED. OVERALL VARIETIES OF PHYSICIANS REGISTERED IS ABOUT. 95% OF ALL PRESCRIBERS IN MASSACHUSETTS. AND WE PERMIT DELEGATES. 97 %PRESCRIBERS THAT HAVE ACTUALLY PRESCRIBED AT LEAST ONE TIMETABLE 2 OR SCHEDULE 3 OPIOID SIGNED UP. WITH MassPAT. THE NEW SYSTEM IS EASY TO USE, TAKES 1 1/2. SECONDS TO OBTAIN IN, CAN BE INCORPORATED RIGHT INTO A CLIENT ' S ELECTRONIC MEDICAL DOCUMENT, SO. IT ' S COMPONENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL FUNCTION FLOW.
AND IT ' S INTEROPERABLE WITH OTHER STATES PARTICULARLY.
IMPORTANT IN NEW ENGLAND AND ALSO OUR BORDER COMMUNITIES. AS WELL AS BELOW IS THE POWER OF OUR DATA, OUR LEGISLATION,.
AS WELL AS OUR NEW MassPAT. I NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT MY OWN WRITING HERE.SO THE BLUE LINES ARE THE PEOPLE RECEIVING. SCHEDULE 2 OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS AS WELL AS THE ECO-FRIENDLY LINE IS'THE NUMBER OF SEARCHES BY PRESCRIBERS. AND ALSO PHARMACISTS. HAVE ON HERE ON NUMBER OF TRICK DATES
. SO DECEMBER 7th, 2015, WAS THE FIRST DEMAND. THAT DRUG STORES MUST REPORT ON OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED UP
. THE MARCH 15, 2016 DATE, WHEN OUR STEP LEGISLATION. WHICH WAS OUR FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ITEM OF REGULATION ENTERED INTO IMPACT THAT REQUIRED
. THE 7 DAY PRESCRIBING LIMITATION FOR FIRST-TIME PRESCRIPTIONS. THE AUGUST 22 DATE, THE NEXT DATE YOU SEE,
. FOLLOWING THE TWO LINES CROSS, IS WHEN THE NEW PMP ENTERED INTO IMPACT. AS WELL AS ON OCTOBER 15 OF 2016 IS WHEN
WE REQUIRED. THAT ALL PRESCRIBERS UTILIZE THE PMP.SO YOU TIN SEE CURRENTLY WE WERE BEGINNING AT A HIGH
BAR SO WHEN I SHOW THIS PARTICULAR GRAPH TO INDIVIDUALS I STATE DO NOT DO A SUCCESS LAP RIGHT HERE SINCE WE'' RE. STARTING AT A REALLY HIGH VARIETY OF PRESCRIPTIONS WRITTEN IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. BUT YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE POWER OF REGULATION, INFORMATION,.
AND ALSO RECOMMENDING METHODS HAS SPENT MASSACHUSETTS. WE HAVE SEEN A 30% DECLINE IN ONE YEAR IN.
PRESCRIBING OF OPIOIDS IN MASSACHUSETTS, AS A RESULT.THIS IS 2 YEARS BACK, OUR INTEROPERABILITY. WAS REALLY WITH VARIOUS OTHER STATES WAS QUITE SMALL. NOW WE ARE CONNECTED WITH 31 STATES AND DISTRICT. OF COLUMBIA, AND WE WILL BE GOTTEN IN TOUCH WITH A LOT MORE STATES BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL. YEAR. I SIMPLY HAVE TWO EVEN MORE SLIDES AND ALSO ONE MINUTE. SO I ' M GOING TO DO THIS QUICKLY.
HERE'IS ONE OF OUR CHALLENGES. ONE OF OUR CHALLENGES IS THAT FENTANYL-RELATED. DEATHS ARE ENHANCING WHILE PRESCRIPTION OPIOID FATALITIES ARE REDUCING. WHEN WE BEGAN THE OPIOID UPSURGE RESPONSE. IN MASSACHUSETTS, FENTANYL WAS AVAILABLE BUT NOT AS PRESENT. SO IN 2014, FENTANYL WAS PRESENT IN 14% OF. THE DEATHS IN MASSACHUSETTS OF OPIOID OVERDOSES, AND TODAY IT ' S 81% OF OPIOID DEATHS IN MASSACHUSETTS. HAVE FENTANYL AS TRACE IN THE DEATH.THIS IS A SUGGESTION THAT THE CHANGING NATURE. OF THE OPIOID UPSURGE WILL CERTAINLY REQUIRE VARIOUS APPROACHES OVER TIME. I ' M GOING TO MISS OVER THIS NEXT SLIDE AND. NARCAN, WHICH IS IMPORTANT.
BELOW IS THE NEXT STEP FOR MASSACHUSETTS, ONE. IS THE GUV SUBMITTED HIS
SECOND ITEM OF MAJOR DISRUPTIVE LEGISLATION ON NOVEMBER 14. OF THIS YEAR. IT IS PLANNED TO CONTINUE
TO FUNCTION WITH OUR. PRESCRIBER NEIGHBORHOOD TO MAKE DATA MORE
AVAILABLE TO COMMUNITIES AND ALSO EXPAND GAIN ACCESS TO TO TREATMENT. AND ALSO PARTICULARLY TARGET IT
TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE DANGER POPULACES, WE ' RE IMPLEMENTING MEDICARE. WAIVER INCLUDING$ 160 MILLION IN GAIN ACCESS TO
TO GREATER TREATMENT CHANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH. MEDICAID INCLUDING ADDITION OF RECOVERY COACHES. MassPAT INFORMATION TO NOTIFY PRESCRIBERS CONCERNING METHODS,. INCLUDING AFFIRMATIVE REPORTING OF PRESCRIBERS TO THEIR LICENSING PANELS IF INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT. ADHERING TO THE LAW.AND A CONCENTRATE ON TREATMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS IN.
PARTICULAR WITH CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS.
SO MY TAKEAWAY TO YOU REMAINS IN 2 1/2 YEARS OF. CONCENTRATED IN EFFORT IN ONE STATE 30% DECLINE IN PRESCRIPTIONS OF OPIOIDS, FOR THE FIRST. TIME EVER YEAR OVER YEAR INFORMATION WE HAVE SEEN A 10 %DECREASE IN OVERDOSE DEATHS IN MASSACHUSETTS. AND YET WE ' VE EXPERIENCED A 200 %BOOST. IN NON-FATAL OVERDOSES.
SO WHILE OUR INJURY DECREASE IS EFFECTIVE,. WE UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A LOT EVEN MORE TO PERFORM TO INCREASE THERAPY AS WELL AS TO CONSERVE LIVES. THANKS SO EXTREMELY MUCH FOR HAVING ME THIS. MORNING AND ALSO RECOGNIZING ONE STATE ' S JOURNEY. [PRAISE]
