Cassie
Maddigan,
OTS
Occupational Therapy Student
Creighton University
Cassie Maddigan is in her last year of school as an occupational therapy student working toward a doctorate degree in occupational therapy at Creighton University. She has a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Studies from California State University, Channel Islands. This research study gave her new perspective and experience with healthcare data.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Excessive amounts of money in healthcare are wasted due to duplicated or unnecessary health screenings. For example, an estimated four million dollars was spent on wasteful or likely wasteful imaging for low back pain, a commonly treated condition within healthcare. 2 Research shows that two-thirds of people will present with low back pain at some point throughout their lifetime, but 20-50% of high-tech imaging procedures fail to provide information that improves the patient’s condition, representing unnecessary services. 1 Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the…