Employee absenteeism can be a big problem for any employer. Some employers have daily absentee rates of greater than ten percent. The question then becomes how to manage absenteeism in today’s businesses and corporations so as to decrease the number of employees who choose to take the day off from work.
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| The ringing question among those studying occupational medicine is how physicians can maintain their professionalism as doctors when they are employed as physicians by powerful and rich corporations. Is the employee best served by this relationship or is the relationship tainted from the beginning by the fact that the paycheck comes from the corporation [...] People with some chronic diseases need regular use of their proper medications, nutrition and toileting—things that can, if not done could result in their death in a week but if managed by a caring individual can keep them alive for years. The place for chronic disease management is not in a hospital. Many specialists [...] In the US, the Obama Administration is planning to augment those doctors who decide to use electronic medical records. Currently, many large medical practices are using electronic medical records and money from the stimulus plan has gone to promote electronic medical records and to make them easier to install and more economical for smaller [...] Health screening is actually an important part of health disease prevention. Doctors can find an illness early in the course of a disease and can manage complications before they arise. The treatment is easier when the disease is in the early phases. People live longer when the diseases are caught early. Some diseases can [...] Both private and public healthcare is involved in the Singapore Health System. Basic medical services are available to all citizens of Singapore. This has come along with improvements in sanitation, water supply, education and housing. The program has been fine-tuned over the years so that all people receive adequate care. Believe it or not, the cost of medications represents just ten percent of the total healthcare costs we incur. About seven percent goes to brand name medication, while three percent goes to generic medication. Some medications patients are taking today actually prolong life and cut down on the overall healthcare costs. It means there [...] The challenge to providers of healthcare in the beginning of the surge in managed care in Singapore was to provide excellent healthcare to people who had limited resources. Citizens expected a high level of care and costs of healthcare was increasing. Healthcare was provided through individual resources, personal insurance, employer-paid insurance and government taxes. There are many insurance options out there in the US but, surprisingly, there are very few that are “fee for service”. You need to know what this type of plan calls for, especially if it’s what your employer calls for. Fee for service plans are also called indemnity insurance plans. They basically mean you [...] Can the company doctor control healthcare cost? When companies decide to cut back healthcare costs, most employees believe the quality of their healthcare will suffer. Yet consider the work of Toyota Motor Company in the US that built an on-site medical clinic at its truck factory in San Antonio, Texas. One patient just paid [...] | ||||
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