cost savings

The pharmacists argue the partnership will hurt independent pharmacies and hides the real issues behind high drug costs.

Researchers found patients who used reSET-O along with buprenorphine and counseling lowered their healthcare costs by $2,385 per person in the six months after they started using the app, compared with the six months before.

A new study suggests that a deep learning system would save on the roughly two minutes of human labor required to grade each case, although a semi-automated approach was found to drive the greatest savings for large programs.