It’s back to school and back to business. And it’s 60 days until the election! David Williams curates an excellent season debut issue: Health Wonk Review: Back to School Daze – check it out. There’s a little bit of everything: opioids, epi-pens, ACA, health care tech – check it out!
A few other things that caught our interest lately:
Related and upcoming: September 13 noon-1:30 pm Helping Workers Keep Their Jobs After an Injury, Illness, or Disability – the event will take place in DC and online.
Kudos to insurance web pioneer Bob Wilson on 17 years of WorkersCompensation.com – really, what foresight! Read his thoughts at Social Media, an Anniversary and Reflections. We’re a few year behind him at 14 year this month.
- Hospital Surgery Rates for Workers’ Compensation Vary Widely – a summary of a new report from WCRI
- Nurses Provide Frontline Care – Roberto Ceniceros
- … and more on nurses from Work Comp Psych net: Are Nurses And Health Care Workers Facing More On-The-Job Violence?
- Anne Kirby: Attacking ALAE – A Lean Strategy Road Map
- With Auto Slowdown, Advanced Industries Face a Hard Road
- ‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll
- Federalizing workers’ comp
- Esoteric exposure of the week: Bagpipe Lung
- The history of the forklift truck
- Fire-Related Firefighter Injuries Reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (2012-2014)
- The rise in medical identity theft
- Lessons on sexual harassment from the EEOC and the news headlines
- September is National Preparedness Month
