Partnering with Sure Med Compliance for responsible prescribing
It can be a difficult balance treating patients’ pain while also taking crucial steps to avoid misuse, abuse, dependence, and overdose of opioids. Providers must recognize “red flags” and signals of misuse, abuse, or dependence. In the context of treatment for chronic pain, addictive behaviors may be difficult to identify.
That’s why we’ve partnered with Sure Med Compliance.
Their mission is to end the overdose epidemic through greater prescribing compliance by offering the first and only digital health platform scientifically validated to mitigate risk to both patient and provider in pain management settings. By delivering clinical insights that help influence safer prescribing decisions, we can help protect healthcare providers from liability and allow doctors to create safer exposures to controlled substances.
The Sure Med program is available to ProAssurance insureds at no additional cost.
Overview
Sure Med recognized a point-of-care problem: To initiate or continue controlled substance therapy legally, a physician must determine and document up to 26 data points in a 5- to 10-minute office visit. This may not be feasible for busy doctors, so it may not get done. The unintended consequences may lead to poor outcomes and provider liability.
With Sure Med’s digital health platform, the patient is evaluated electronically, and the results are delivered immediately to their Electronic Health Record. This eliminates 80% of the time needed to determine and document the necessary data points to initiate or continue controlled substance therapy.
Through our exclusive affiliation with Sure Med, ProAssurance is at the forefront of helping physicians to prescribe more responsibly, leading to better outcomes for patients. We want to encourage our insureds who regularly prescribe opioids, especially those who prescribe for chronic pain, to learn how Sure Med can help them develop and maintain safe and responsible prescribing practices, which in turn, should lead to better outcomes for their patients.