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  • Data driven: Use risk assessments as guide

    You may go to great lengths to achieve good participation in Health Risk Assessments (HRAs), but the data is of no good to you unless you use it.
  • "Being visible" best way to boost participation

    As an employee, wouldn't you like the chance to anonymously report what you really think of occupational health programs? This is one way Sandra Cinque, RN, BA, COHN-S/CM, FAAOHN, nurse clinical coordinator for health, safety & performance services at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare in Parsippany, NJ, promotes participation in the company's Health Risk Questionnaires (HRQs).
  • OSHA to adopt national illness, injury standard

    If your employer does not already have a comprehensive workplace safety program in place, one may soon be required.
  • Federal law may differ from state standards

    The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has taken a strong position in favor of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration's proposed federal Illness and Injury Prevention Programs (I2P2) standard, including strengthening the requirements in certain ways beyond what California OSHA already requires, says Paul Papanek, MD, MPH, chairman of the board for the San Francisco, CA-based Western Occupational Environmental Medical Association.
  • FDA pressured to ban powdered, latex gloves

    Latex gloves are back on the public agenda. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed warning label for powdered gloves and is considering a ban on the use of powder in latex gloves and alternatives, even as hospitals greatly reduce their use of powdered gloves.
  • Protect HCWs from hazardous drugs

    Make sure your health care workers are handling hazardous drugs safely.
  • Technology is changing the practice of case management

    "This was a new patient who had a severe hand injury and was seeing a microsurgeon for an evaluation.
  • Don't rush into a technology purchase

    Technology can make a huge difference in the practice of case management, but you should choose carefully and deliberately to avoid pitfalls in the future, cautions Marcia Diane Ward, RN, CCM, PMP, a case management consultant based in Columbus, Ohio.
  • Software tool focuses on immediate needs

    As part of a program targeting at-risk Medicaid fee-for service members, case managers at Hudson Health Plan are using a software tool that helps them focus in on the needs of their clients they should address first.
  • ACOs bring opportunities for case managers

    When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) begins its Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) providing care for fee-for service Medicare patients in January, 2012, it's likely to mean new opportunities for case managers, says Bruce Merlin Fried, JD, senior member of SNR Denton's Health Care group and former director of the Center for Health Plans and Providers at CMS.