The York Pain Center Partners with PatchRx to Power a Next-Generation Longitudinal Model of Care for Patients with Chronic Pain
The York Pain Center is pioneering a new model of care for managing chronic pain, pairing innovative sensor technology with data science and machine learning to promote adherence, identify health risk, and drive clinical outcomes.
YORK, Pa., Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The York Pain Center, a leading provider of Pain Management care in central and southeast Pennsylvania, announced their partnership with PatchRx, a longtime innovator in the field of medication adherence technology. Under the new partnership, providers at The York Pain Center will have unprecedented insight into patients' medication adherence, enabling them to offer proactive, personalized plans of care. This partnership is just the beginning for The York Pain Center, which plans on leveraging the insights from PatchRx to enable a comprehensive, next generation model of care for chronic pain.
An estimated 51 million US adults suffer from severe chronic pain, with 17 million of those reporting that their pain severely limits their ability to perform activities of daily living1. Chronic pain is a complex, multifaceted disease that forces pain management specialists to develop comprehensive plans of care, involving multiple therapy modalities, often including the prescription of opioid analgesics. Yet, given the risk associated with long-term opioid utilization, pain management providers go the extra mile to ensure patients are taking medication as prescribed.
The York Pain Center's partnership with PatchRx is a first step in creating a comprehensive, data-driven model of care for chronic pain patients. Utilizing the daily adherence data provided by the PatchRx sensors, The York Pain Center will be able to analyze medication taking behaviors and draw associations between these behaviors and other clinical outcomes. These analytical capabilities ultimately help providers make more informed decisions and identify risk earlier, leading to improved patient outcomes and cost savings.
Dr. Jason Brajer, who serves as the Chief Medical Officer at The York Pain Center, said of the partnership: "Pain management has moved from brief and interventional episodes of care to a more longitudinal model of care. As providers we need to not only provide ongoing kinetic and holistic care, but also ensure that the medications we provide are being used appropriately. Medication adherence is a key pillar in our model of care. To this end, we could think of no better partner than PatchRx, whose technology and team are best in class."
"Patient care needs to be much more holistic than what we're currently offering, so we're thrilled to be partnering with the team at The York Pain Center on this new model of care," says Andrew Aertker, Co-Founder and CEO at PatchRx. "Having worked with dozens of Pain Management practices around the country, seeing firsthand the complexity of their prescribing decisions, we understand the acute need for improved medication adherence data and a holistic, longitudinal model of care where our data is used to create more proactive and informed decision making."
About PatchRx
PatchRx is revolutionizing patient care through its clinically backed medication adherence technology. The company's patented smart pill-bottle caps for generic prescription bottles, combined with its comprehensive software platform, arm providers with the insight needed to assess a treatment's effectiveness and intervene early to prevent adverse outcomes. PatchRx has improved care outcomes for thousands of patients across the U.S., closing the gap between a patient's prescribed treatment and actual medication-taking behaviors. To learn more, visit PatchRx.io.
About The York Pain Center
Founded in 2023, The York Pain Center is a multi-specialty pain management group dedicated to providing holistic and integrated care for individuals suffering from chronic pain.
1https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7215a1.htm#:~:text=During%202021%2C%20an%20estimated%2020.9,Hispanic%20American%20Indian%20or%20Alaska
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