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Healthcare Quality Lagging in US

MHC — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:11:26 +0000

A recent report, the Commonwealth Fund Report, found that while the US spends at least $8000 per year in healthcare dollars per person, this huge amount of money isn’t translating to better quality healthcare. In fact, healthcare quality markers, such as preventable asthma deaths, are the worst in the US when compared to other developed [...]

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A Turn in Healthcare

MHC — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:45:15 +0000

Doctors used to only the basic numbers of the diseases to determine if the patient’s healthcare was adequate. They focused on reducing mortality rates as well as having patients’ hit target numbers for cholesterol and heart disease. Now, there has been a turn in healthcare and doctors are asking completely different questions. Doctors and other [...]

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Ways to Improve Healthcare

MHC — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:51:00 +0000

The days when we looked forward to the best healthcare system in the world are several years ago. In those dream days, we believed people would all have healthcare, that healthcare would be accessible to all, and the cost of healthcare would be affordable. Those days went by the way side a long time ago [...]

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The Pros and Cons of Palliative Care

MHC — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:44:00 +0000

A century ago, doctors knew a great deal about palliative care because there were few treatments for diseases for which there were no cure. Doctors learned to treat pain and anxiety and to make a patients last few days and weeks as comfortably as possible. During the last century, however, the emphasis has been on [...]

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Workplace Wellness at Bargain Prices

MHC — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:37:45 +0000

In this day and age where money isn’t flowing from trees, it is hard for companies to justify spending money on employee wellness. Depending on what wellness program a company chooses, the starting up of a program can be costly. But does it pay off? Some research seems to indicate that it does. In one [...]

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Healthcare’s “Bubble” Set to Burst

MHC — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:38:06 +0000

Besides things like social media startups and student loan, many researchers believe the next great “bubble” set to burst is the healthcare industry. There is practically no competition in the healthcare industry and the per-capita spending in the US is twice that of other developed countries. The researchers who have recently studied this include Steven [...]

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MHC signed MOA with subsidiary of PT Siloam Hospitals (Lippo Group) on 23 April 2012

MHC — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:25:00 +0000

MHC signed MOA with subsidiary of Siloam Hospital (Lippo Group, Indonesia) VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL MHC Medical Network signs Memorandum of Agreement with PT Medika Harapan Cemerlang Indonesia, subsidiary of PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk 23 April 2012 – MHC Medical Network Pte Ltd, subsidiary of MHC Asia Group, and PT Medika Harapan [...]

MHC signed MOA with subsidiary of PT Siloam Hospitals (Lippo Group) on 23 April 2012 is a post from: MHC Asia- Third Party Administration, Managed Care, Health Outsource Partner, Health Screening, Work Place Health

Smarter People Work Better

MHC — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:10:25 +0000

A recently published cohort study looked at the link between cognitive ability (intelligence) and absenteeism in the workforce and found that those at the lowest levels of intelligence were more likely to call in sick than those at the highest levels of intelligence. The study looked at 23,000 individuals from the UK. In this country, [...]

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Choosing a Third Party Administrator

MHC — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:09:48 +0000

The Third Party Administrator is the organization you hire as an employer to manage your company’s group benefit plans. They take care of the whole process and do the job that ordinary insurance carriers used to do. TPAs do a number of things for an employer. They manage the insurance billing, the maintenance of records [...]

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Keeping Healthcare Costs from Ruining Business

MHC — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:17:24 +0000

Small businesses are already suffering from their burden of the high cost of healthcare and it threatens to get worse. How can small businesses provide healthcare for its sick and well patients without breaking the bank and going under due to high costs? First of all, all businesses should provide some level of healthcare services [...]

Keeping Healthcare Costs from Ruining Business is a post from: MHC Asia- Third Party Administration, Managed Care, Health Outsource Partner, Health Screening, Work Place Health