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Only Continuous Electronic Monitoring Can Ensure Patients Receiving Opioids Are Safe

This AAMI video describes why only continuous electronic monitoring can ensure patients receiving opioids are safe. It features Marilyn Flack (Executive Director at Association, AAMI) and Senior Vice President, Patient Safety Initiatives, AAMI Foundation, Dr Frank Overdyk, and Laura Batz Townsend.

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Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety is a national advocacy force for addressing patient health and safety priorities that are shared by patients, physicians, regulators and industry.  By doing so, we seek to ensure that the best medications, medical invention and technology can improve care and reduce cost. PPAHS works to advance patient health and safety by developing and highlighting best practices and recommendations through better use and application of clinical practices and experiences, information technologies and checklists, and healthcare information. As a voice in support of ideas and innovation that can improve care, we encourage a health ecosystem culture of patient safety.

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