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\u201cIt is encouraging to know that increasing energy is being devoted to pain management,\u201d says Gopal Khanna, director at AHRQ. \u201cI am pleased that AHRQ is contributing to the effort with a groundbreaking innovation developed to help clinicians better manage patients\u2019 pain with greater use of digital technology,\u201d he wrote in a recent blog posting.The new tool is \u201cFactors to Consider in Managing Chronic Pain,\u201d a free open-source software package that supports data exchange standards such as HL7, FHIR and SMART. A summary or dashboard enables a physician to quickly access patient vitals, medical history, pain assessments, previous treatments and potential risks.AHRQ further is offering implementation guides and guidance on using the tool in a live setting.Another tool, the CDS Connect Initiative<\/a>, offers a platform for developing and sharing interoperable clinical decision support resources that aid physicians rather than adding to their clinical burden and delivers the right information in the right form at the right time, according to Khanna.\u201cWe are eager for the healthcare sector to take what we\u2019ve done, to adapt and re-use it, to develop and test it even further, and to innovate and improve on it.\u201d","saveContent":"A new tool from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality can help physicians find pain-related information on a particular patient.The agency says the tool consolidates information scattered in the electronic health record into a single view or dashboard.AHRQ estimates that 50 million American adults have chronic pain on a daily basis, which interferes with daily life or work for 20 million individuals.

\u201cIt is encouraging to know that increasing energy is being devoted to pain management,\u201d says Gopal Khanna, director at AHRQ. \u201cI am pleased that AHRQ is contributing to the effort with a groundbreaking innovation developed to help clinicians better manage patients\u2019 pain with greater use of digital technology,\u201d he wrote in a recent blog posting.The new tool is \u201cFactors to Consider in Managing Chronic Pain,\u201d a free open-source software package that supports data exchange standards such as HL7, FHIR and SMART. A summary or dashboard enables a physician to quickly access patient vitals, medical history, pain assessments, previous treatments and potential risks.AHRQ further is offering implementation guides and guidance on using the tool in a live setting.Another tool, the CDS Connect Initiative<\/a>, offers a platform for developing and sharing interoperable clinical decision support resources that aid physicians rather than adding to their clinical burden and delivers the right information in the right form at the right time, according to Khanna.\u201cWe are eager for the healthcare sector to take what we\u2019ve done, to adapt and re-use it, to develop and test it even further, and to innovate and improve on it.\u201d","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

Free federal tools available to aid physicians treating chronic pain

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