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Beverly Hospital at Danvers (Mass.) Pain Management Center is launching a new integrated care model that will combine traditional pain medication and injection services with a range of behavioral health, physical and integrative medicine treatments.

New research from the University of Virginia suggests that standardized interactions between nurses and pain patients can boost patient satisfaction and the effectiveness of pain management treatment.  

The majority of nurses surveyed in a Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association study indicated that bar coded medical administration did not make patient care any easier, according to a Fierce Health IT report.

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The National Business Group on Health and Towers Watson recently released their 17th annual survey (pdf) on employers and how they purchase value in healthcare, and this year's survey revealed several new and emerging trends.

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