Imagine this: You hurt your back doing yardwork or you have surgery, and you get a prescription to help you through the pain. You take a few, feel better and throw the leftover drugs, usually opioids like codeine, hydrocodone or oxycodone, in the back of your medicine cabinet. Then what happens?
It’s an ongoing conundrum: How do we make good investments in technology that will improve the health and lives of Louisianans? Part of the answer has become our partnership with the New Orleans Business Alliance and Ochsner Health System to sponsor the New Orleans Health Innovators (NOLAHI) Challenge.
Do you know that nagging feeling that you’ve left something really important undone? It’s a horrible feeling and, for me, it usually means I forgot something my wife told me to do.
Read more
Counting is pretty straightforward; we learned to do it as kids, right?
Read more
I’ve written a three-part series (part 1, part 2, part 3) explaining the origins of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and issues that have arisen, leading up to the currently pending lawsuit to do away with the ACA.
This is part three of a three-part series explaining the origins of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and issues that have arisen, leading up to the currently pending lawsuit to do away with the ACA. Part Iand Part II .
Read more
