The ability to quantify the effectiveness of workplace health and safety interventions––once an elusive goal––is now within the grasp of employers and their medical provider partners.

In the last issue of VISIONS, we reported that Humana had just agreed to sell Concentra to a joint venture comprised of Select Medical and Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe. The selling price was $1.055 billion in cash and the deal closed in June.

Q: What are the core reporting metrics for senior management? We begin by telling our clients, ‘What is important to you may not be applicable to them.’

Websites are such a common business tool that it’s going to reflect poorly on your program if you don’t have one.

Healthcare in the United States has undergone a transformation in large part due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Occupational health has also been transformed by the ACA–and by all the new service lines that have sprouted up in programs around the country.

“What are the most common pitfalls of using social media as a healthcare marketing tool? What should an organization do to mitigate these risks?”

I had the privilege of speaking to several hundred occupational medicine physicians at the American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC) in May, a talk I titled “33 Lessons from 33 Years in Occupational Health.” It was the 33rd anniversary of my first presentation at that conference in Toronto in 1982.

Certainly. Volumes provide a platform to in turn measure value. For example, higher Ns mean greater impact.