Solving the Crisis with Opioid and Pain Innovations: a iHub Speaker Series and HealthCheck Collaboration

Brigham Innovation Hub launched in September 2013 as a resource center for innovators at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital to advance their ideas for improving care. Since then iHub has evolved into a broader digital health consulting team, supporting internal innovation and also bringing in leading-edge digital solutions to create the hospital of the future. Programs and infrastructure enable all members of the hospital community to engage, from residents to information technology to human resources. iHub also brings together key players in the vibrant Boston healthcare ecosystem and beyond, through collaborations with organizations such as Microsoft, Evidation Health, Harvard Business School, and Rock Health.

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The opioid crisis has been dominating US headlines every day. This crisis has no boundaries when it comes to age group, race, ethnicity or socioeconomic groups. It has made its way into households, hospital emergency rooms, courthouses, and schools and universities across the country, not only directly affecting hundreds of thousands of people, but their families, loved ones and communities as well.
More recently, local communities and government officials have been looking to health care professionals to help address this crisis. Experts in the field have been working tirelessly to create more effective tools, processes, and overall initiatives to help aid the current crisis.
Join the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub and MassChallenge HealthTech as we welcome experts from across Brigham Health and the Boston digital health community to discuss current innovative initiatives and opportunities for innovation in the future of care and pain management. Attendees will also have the chance to learn about the opioid and pain innovation initiative at Brigham Health focused on facilitating collaboration between industry, researchers, and clinicians to eliminate the risk of addiction because of pain.
Keynote Speaker:
Jack Kelly, Author of <A HREF="https://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Needle-Journey-Recovery-Politics/dp/1732765820" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sharp Needle</A>
Moderator:
Felice J. Freyer, Boston Globe
Panelists: 
Hannah Maniates, Special Project Coordinator, Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Office of Recovery Services 
Satya Prateek Bommaraju, Data Scientist, Marigold Health
Christin Price, MD, Program Administrative Director, Brigham Health Bridge Clinic
Peter Chai, MD, Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Visit iHub <A HREF="https://www.bwhihub.org/events/2019/4/2/solving-the-crisis-with-opioid-and-pain-innovations" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</A> for further speaker information. 
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About MassChallenge HealthTech: 
MassChallenge HealthTech is MassChallenge’s digital health accelerator. It was established in 2016 by MassChallenge, the City of Boston, MeHI, and MACP to support digital health startups. Based in Boston, the program addresses healthcare challenges through demonstration projects led by startups, governments, universities, and preeminent healthcare organizations and institutions.

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