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Alex Anderson

@alexanderhander

Dad. Husband. People-Person. Systems-Thinker. Social Justice Seeker. Transit Advocate. Health Care Researcher. Polymath.

 Ward 7. Somerville, MA.
Joined July 2014
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Health Equity: the most important place to focus for health and health care improvement. teapawt.org/TheIHI/status/76267197…
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) (@TheIHI) profile pictureInstitute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)@TheIHI8 Aug 2016
New health #equity guide available for health care organizations hubs.ly/H03XGX10 #healthequity
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Check out some of the work of 100m Lives: To have prosperity we need #healthequitynow RT if agree #100mlives thndr.me/jmm0Xd
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@madgeatihi Thanks to all for joining #WIHI with @TheIHI and join us next time to discuss Joy in Work on May 5
Dr. Joel from @KPShare: what we did to improve can be done anywhere. @TheIHI #WIHI
Pharamacies drug take back programs are one step to get the supply under control. @TheIHI #WIHI
From @TheIHI #WIHI chat: What can med students do? Improved initial education; alternative pain mgmt; interact with young ppl in schools
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Joel: Goal is not to blame doctors; process to rethink and improvement practice @TheIHI #WIHI
#WIHI listener comment: MDs blamed 15 yrs ago for NOT doing enough for pain mgmt. Now, blame for too much prescribing. @TheIHI #WIHI
Ideas for safety: Needle exchanges. Safe injections sites. Others? @TheIHI #WIHI
@madgeatihi similarities to antibiotics overuse? @LindsayRMartin some similarities. Diverge at addictive nature of opioids. @TheIHI #WIHI
Joel: Does lower opioid prescribing lead to more heroin use? Unclear from @KPShare view. Working with Public Health to track. @TheIHI #WIHI
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Joseph Foster: Marketing from Pharma + Over prescribing from well meaning doctors = overdose epidemic
"We cannot arrest our way out of the problem" -Joeseph Foster, AG for New Hampshire @TheIHI #WIHI
Fentanyl rising in utilization. 50x more powerful than heroin. @TheIHI #WIHI
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91.5% of all New Hampshire drug deaths cause by opiates/opioids @TheIHI #WIHI
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New Hampshire Drug Deaths per 100k population: 50/year before 2000. 400+/year in 2015 @TheIHI #WIHI
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Opioid Use Populations: Naive Patients. High Does Chronic Users.Opioid Dependent seeking within health care, and outside of it.@TheIHI #WIHI
#WIHI is joined today Dr. Joel Hyatt from @KPShare and Att.Gen. Joseph Foster of New Hampshire, and from IHI @LindsayRMartin and @mladerman
Join this week's #WIHI to Learn & discuss with @TheIHI tinyurl.com/zonz85t
About to start live tweeting this week's #WIHI for @TheIHI: How can health care alter prescribing & reduce opioid addiction?
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