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Helping injured or ill employees return to work as quickly as possible has become a major concern for occupational health professionals.
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An optimal stay-at-work program entails a delicate balancing act, both in terms of employee relationships and interventions.
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A new disease management program being introduced by Health Management Corp. (HMC) will help improve quality of life for employees suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and reduce expenses for their employers, says the Richmond, VA-based health and disease management company.
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Healthcare@Work survey under way; Study: Occ-med clinics save money, time; Find NIOSH emergency planning tools on the web; CDC mails smallpox info packets to U.S. clinicians; CDC offers vaccine monitoring system; CDC alerts clinicians to atypical pneumonia.
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Before Jackson Health System in Miami had case managers in the emergency department (ED), the average waiting time for patients who needed to be seen for follow-up was six months, and only about 22% of patients showed up for their appointments.
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The first year that Christopher Chevalier, BSN, pediatric emergency department (ED) case manager at Jackson Health System in Miami, began referring young asthma patients to the hospitals new asthma center, ED visits for asthma decreased by 22%.
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Following a comprehensive redesign of its case management department, the average lengths of stay (LOS) on some medical services at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) Medical Centers University Hospital have declined.
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When the privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 went into effect on April 14, they probably didnt mandate changing anything that you as a hospital case manager have been doing for years, says Sara Kraus, JD, an attorney practicing in the health care department of Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City.
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Information technology (IT) has brought many changes to the job of the hospital case manager, but does that mean that IT always is beneficial?
