Many EHR software solutions nowadays help those in the healthcare field provide optimal care to their patients as well as navigate their day-to-day tasks and responsibilities via a paperless format. But what happens when you have questions about certain features within the software or you’d like to interact with other professional experts who can provide…
In the U.S., the government requires employers to provide employees with protective respiratory equipment in industries where they may be exposed to contaminants, including infectious diseases.1 Ensuring these facial respirators fit is an integral part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) guidance on protecting employee health, so formal tests are conducted on individual…
Employee Health (EH) executives are responsible for the well-being of an array of healthcare workers, including those in the EH departments, where data on incidents, illnesses, and injuries are recorded and processed. While increasingly sophisticated hospital software has assisted in collecting and interpreting physical health and compliance data, executives face new pressure to deal with ever-growing…
We can’t predict the future of COVID-19 or our responses to it. With too many uncertain variables, the best we can do is make educated guesses based on our evidence. For Employee Health (EH) departments, the stakes are high since they’re charged with helping those on the frontline stay safe and healthy. The employee health…
Hospitals are required to report COVID-19 data to the federal government. However, the nature of these reporting requirements continues to change, making compliance difficult. Below, we’ll look at the challenges of maintaining compliance with an ever-changing set of regulations, as well as how hospital Employee Health (EH) departments can use software tools to ease this…