Showing posts with label Health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health care. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2021

OSHA Finally Acts: Is It Too Little and Too Late?

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Today OSHA released a COVID Emergency Temporary Standard [ETS] for health care workers and guidance for workers, not in a health care settin...
Friday, April 30, 2021

NJ Governor Murphy Signs the Healthy Terminals Act

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NJ Governor Phil Murphy today signed the Healthy Terminals Act (S989) which creates new minimum wage and benefits requirements for certain N...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Medical Errors - The Third Leading Cost of Death

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Costing almost $1 Trillion dollars per year and a leading of death are medical errors. Medical doctors specializing in patient safety t...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Drilling down on the necessity of dental X-rays

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Dental x-rays When my son and daughter were youngsters, once a year I'...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Dying Young: Why your Social and Economic Status May be a death sentence in America

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Lisa F. Berkman, Ph.D., Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology, Director, Harvard Center for Population and Developmen...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Open for Business Tomorrow: Healthcare.gov

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Tomorrow marks an historic day in US history. The Federal government launches insurance enrollment under The Affordable Care Act. Visit ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Chart of the Day: Hands-Free Talking Is as Bad as Talking on a Handset. Maybe Even Worse.

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Distracted driving doesn't get better by the use of hands free technology. Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes fr...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

CDC: Public Health Practices to Include Persons with Disabilities

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Today's post was shared by WCBlog and comes from www.cdc.gov This is another in a series of occasional MMWR reports titled CDC Gra...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

An “F” for Quality

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Today's post was shared by The Health Care Blog and comes from thehealthcareblog.com Huge numbers of older persons transition from h...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Has the Internet Raised or Lowered Healthcare Costs?

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The next trip to see the company doctor my be by computer. Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com ...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Health Law Adds New Expense For Farmers: Insurance For Field Workers

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Today's post was shared by Kaiser Health News and comes from www.kaiserhealthnews.org Farm labor contractors across California ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Medicare Classifies Over 9.6 Billion Each Year as Overpayments-Some Are Uncollectible

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CMS identifies billions of dollars in Medicare overpayments to health care providers each year. In fiscal year (FY) 2010, overpayments tot...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Workers are too scared in the US to file claims

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A recent research report indicated that workers fail to report occupational illness and accidents for fear of retribution by their employer...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Just Go to The Emergency Room

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Emergency room medicine is becoming an easy avenue for work-related medical care as employers and insurance carriers keep restricting tradit...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

The Obama Agenda: The Road to Workplace Wellness

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As workers compensation programs are being diluted by soaring medical costs, The Obama Administration's policy makers are taking a bol...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Curing the Profit Motive in Health Care

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Soaring medical costs have afflicted the workers' compensation industry with economic distress and have severely impacted the efficient ...
Friday, September 28, 2012

The President signs the Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012

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THE PRESIDENT: Well, I want to thank everybody who is here because they all did outstanding work to help us get this legislation completed....