For a long time I’ve wanted to share personal and team productivity techniques I and others I work with have found useful. I’ve probably hesitated on this because there are so many excellent tools I use and I always think I should boil it down to just a few and explain all my reasons for using this or that app.
Movie buffs surely recall the 2000 hit “What Women Want,” featuring Mel Gibson as an ad executive with the unique power to “hear” what women were thinking whenever one or more was in his presence.
Although formal assessment of medical interventions using controlled trials was established in the 1940s, it wasn’t until the late 1970’s early 1980s that evidence-based medicine (EBM) became part of the medical lexicon.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)is being urged to place a higher priority on research to help prevent work-related injuries and illnesses from unnecessarily becoming chronic disabling conditions.
It can also be called workflows or algorithms. “It can also be called workflows or algorithms. They help you identify problems that you may have in your clinic processes. They may help you identify any variations in practices. It’s The journey into your clinic.”
Extend your hours as appropriate and try to comply with both individual and collective employer scheduling needs.
We use a formal clinic audit tool, compare compliance to standards.
Regardless of whether a center’s roots are in urgent care occupational medicine, for mixed model clinic operators, the opportunity lies in cross-selling or “converting” workers’ compensation, physical and drug screen patients to urgent care patients.
FMCSA Bulletin on Sleep Apnea is not Rule
Finally some guidance to medical examiners from FMCSA in this bulletin on obstructive sleep apnea. Although not a “rule” and therefore no specific details of exactly how to screen, evaluate, certify/disqualify, or manage these cases, the guidance here is consistent with previous recommendations and medical expert panel reports.
FMCSA AND URGENT CARE
Over 90% of urgent care centers provide some type of occupational medicine services. These services typically include drug screens, employee physicals, worker’s compensation injury care and other testing and specialized exams.