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Time is money when an employee is injured and cant return to work. Besides the financial burden for the employer in temporary disability payments, medical costs, and extra staffing, rehabilitation actually can suffer as employees stay idle at home.
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Why do so few health care workers get the flu vaccine each year? What can be done about it?
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The heat is off of nursing homes or at least turned down from a boil to simmer. Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) administrator John Henshaw announced that the National Emphasis Program for nursing homes has ended.
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End-of-life care may be the most difficult subject youll take up with your clients, but youll be doing them a big disservice if you dont discuss it.
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When case managers at Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield bring up advance directives with their patients, they are well prepared.
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Traditional disease management programs that help patients manage their diseases after they become costly are like arriving at the scene of an accident that has already happened, John Palumbo asserts.
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Hospital case managers routinely face what I call the Bermuda Triangle of case management ethics. The top of the triangle is the clinical concern, encompassing the medical and treatment needs of the patient. On the right are the financial concerns, and on the left are the legal and ethical issues. In the middle of this triangle is the patient.
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Regardless of their practice setting, case managers need to take steps to maintain the confidentiality of protected health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountabi-lity Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
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