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Five Simple Steps to Prevent Medication Mistakes According to the Institute of Medicine, medication errors are among the most common type of preventable medical mistakes ot occur in hospitals. Adverse drug events cause more than 770,000 injuries and deaths each year and cost up to $5.6 million per hospital, based on a study by the Agency for Health Research and Quality. Read more > |
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Wellness: Where to start? For the past few years, the health care industry has been focused on the next platform for delivering services through the private sector. The industry experts seem to all agree that the "managed care" model, which came into active existence in the mid-80's, had lost its steam in effectiveness. Read more > |
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Motivating Employees to Complete Health Risk Assessments The use of health risk assessments has become an important tool in helping workers understand how to live a healthier life. Unfortunately, it has become a pain for companies to get their employees to complete health risk assessment questionnaires, let alone use the information they learn to make healthier changes in their lifestyle. Read more > |
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Five Simple Steps to Prevent Medication Mistakes According to the Institute of Medicine, medication errors are among the most common type of preventable medical mistakes to occur in hospitals. Adverse drug events cause more than 770,000 injuries and deaths each year and cost up to $5.6 million per hospital. Read more > |
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The Value of Preventive Care Preventive care is often more cost effective compared to treating diseases once symptoms appear. Beyond that, some care services even cost less to implement than the money they save. Read more > |
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Long-Term Care Insurance: New Executive Perk? Employees want to ensure that their long-term healthcare needs are met in a way that doesn’t deplete their life savings or jeopardize their estate assets. Companies, seeing the need, are now offering long-term care insurance as an enticing executive perk. Read more > |
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