Is Your Workplace Safe2Work?
As employers are looking for efficient ways to keep work environments safe from COVID-19, Optis has developed Safe2Work, an app-enabled, web-based health screening program designed to help stop the
Using Risk Prediction Technology to Move Claims Forward
Technology is playing a larger role in helping comp claims progress. In today’s Inside Workers’ Comp, Bobbie Doyle, director of utilization management at Genex, explains the ins and outs of a program designed to do just that. It’s called Referral Expert.
Using the ODG’s Treatment Analyzer on Outcomes to Improve RTW
Workers’ comp professionals rely on the Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) to help guide the return-to-work process for injured employees. And one of the ways ODG has helped boost this effort is through its Treatment Analyzer on Outcomes or TAO Index. In today’s Inside Workers’ Comp, Mariellen Blue joins us to explain the ins and outs of TAO.
Making Telemedicine Work for the Tech Deficient
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When a claimant doesn’t have the right technology for a telemedicine appointment, claim and treatment delays ensue. But, in a pandemic world, what can be done to prevent it?
What COVID-19 Is Teaching Us About Mental Health
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Pandemic anxiety, depression and isolation gives us a taste of what employees face in overcoming a work injury
Field Case Management-A Matter of Life and Death
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Telemedicine is starting to be considered by some as an ideal treatment modality for coronavirus social distancing. However, what happens when true medical concerns don’t present well over a video monitor?
Year of the Nurse in High Definition
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Predicting the impact of health risks around the globe has been the World Health Organization’s (WHO) job since its inception more than 70 years ago. But when WHO officials announced 2020 as the “International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife” it wasn’t based on a premonition that a pandemic would soon bring these unheralded caregivers to the forefront. Instead, it was prompted by the 200th birthday of modern nursing's mother, Florence Nightingale.