Hospice and palliative care provider VITAS Healthcare is launching an opioid dosing tool within its app.
The tool, designed for providers caring for patients with serious illnesses, aims to determine an opioid dosage that treats pain effectively while considering an individual patient’s end-of-life plans.
It uses data on a patient's pain level, medical condition and current pain drug regimen to...
About the author: Stephanie Nieman is a Principal at SJF Ventures based in Durham, NC. SJF Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in high growth, positive impact companies across the U.S. and an active health care investor.
Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” And yet the inherent optimism of human nature causes us to avoid...
