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Occupational Medicine is a branch of medicine with its roots in the field of maintaining the health of the workplace, ensuring the safety of the healthcare facility, taking preventative measures, and treating injuries and illnesses. The area of focus is maintaining high standards of occupational health and safety by skilled workers whose area of expertise is dealing with work-related injuries in the healthcare industry. These experienced healthcare professionals are required to have an understanding of the federal and state regulations about workplace health and safety and help implement these safety rules in their workplace. It exists with an intent to promote and maintain good health among workers.
Should you outsource physician billing and all your revenue cycle management tasks? What is the point of outsourcing? These are big questions many practices face today. Running the business end of practicing medicine sometimes proves frustrating for physicians. Even if you have excellent medical staff, it’s occasionally typical to experience inefficiencies in revenue cycle management … Read more
In 2020, telehealth and virtual visits skyrocketed in use across all medical fields. The dynamics that set this in motion were largely a result of the global pandemic. The reality is that telehealth was already a growing service option before this event. Experts are predicting that telehealth and virtual services will continue in popularity and … Read more
How to become an Ideal Occupational Medicine Clinic for local employers Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Did you know that the vitality rate for injuries is 3.6% per 100,000 full-time workers? An average of 14 workers is injured per second in the United States, which means that employers like having the tools … Read more
Numerous research studies show that employee health and wellness are crucial for workplace success. Businesses whose employees spend time away from work due to illness cost employers more in revenue. Employers are paying their employee for sick days while also hiring a temporary worker to complete the job of that employee. The former CEO of Blue Cross … Read more
Employers today are interested to keep a visible track of their worker’s medical record, especially work-related health problems. One of the reasons for this concern is to reduce the risk of work-related injuries and the other is to comply with strict regulatory policies to remain operational in the business. The working environment has undergone an … Read more
According to a recent report from Washington Post, companies have been on a hiring spree. The unemployment rate has fallen to 3.8 percent, the lowest since 2000. “The labor market is continuing its longest streak of job growth on record,” said Martha Gimbel, researcher director at Indeed.com, an employment website. “This recovery is showing no sign of … Read more
Occupational medicine is the field of medicine that focuses on the treatment and prevention of work related injuries and illnesses. The goal of occupational health and safety specialists is to build safe, injury- free workplace resulting in increased participation of employees in their workplace and a stronger, trustworthy employer-employee relationship. They achieve this by … Read more
Businesses that provide medical benefits for their employees face a variety of challenges. These businesses want to provide high quality, and easily accessible healthcare to their employees, but high costs associated with that care, sometimes creates an impact on the business’s annual budget. Likewise, employees frequently opt for benefit plans with high deductibles, which, while … Read more
According to a recent story from CBS This Morning, hiring in the U.S. has gone up by approximately 17 percent since last July, yet businesses are struggling to find employees who can pass their pre-employment drug tests. Dan Roth, LinkedIn editor-in-chief, explains: “one of the top problems they’re facing is that people are failing drug … Read more
Since we’re about halfway through North American Occupational Safety and Health Week, let’s review some key concepts of Occupational Medicine. In order to maintain accountability and make decisions about workplace health care, the employer needs to be able to communicate with the provider to access and manage employee medical issues in concert with their occupational clinicians. In the … Read more
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