“Optimal Management of Chronic Opioid Therapy” was the topic of this June 4, 2013 partnership with Salem Health Laboratories held in Salem, Ore. It featured a discussion on balancing pain management, patient safety and risk mitigation and featured keynote guest speaker Ms. Jennifer Bolen, JD, The Legal Side of Pain, from Knoxville, Tenn. Nearly 80 physician providers from the Salem region attended to learn how to protect their patients, their community and their practice.

On a weekly basis, respiratory virus testing is tabulated from all patient testing performed at PeaceHealth Laboratories and is now available on our Flu Info Now page.

This pain medication monitoring program offers the industry's highest levels of accuracy to detect prescription pain medication and identify potential negative drug interactions before they occur. In five years of field testing, PtProtect has proven to regularly disclose patients' pain medication abuse or misuse previously unknown to their physicians.