Last week I attended the CCMC case management conference. I usually attend the WCRI conference every year and this year the schedule for the two conferences conflicted. I missed WCRI and #1 felt a little bit left out, and #2 it was in Arizona instead of Boston in February, [...]
Just want to give you fair warning, there is not a profound message in this post. Meet Hope Kirkendal. I sat next to her on the plane today on my way to San Diego to give a talk on opioids to a group of adjusters. At first I have [...]
CompAlliance will be exhibiting again this year at the NWCDC. One or more of our service lines have been supporting and exhibiting at this conference since 1998! So why should you take the time to stop by, surely you have heard it all before, right? Wrong! I read a [...]
The URAC Accreditation Committee met on August 14, 2018 and reviewed the CompAlliance application for re-accreditation for Workers’ Compensation Utilization Management Version 7.3 Program. The Accreditation Committee voted to grant CompAlliance FULL Accreditation pursuant to the Workers’ Compensation Utilization Management, Version 7.3 Program. This award is effective from September [...]
As a Registered Nurse and mother, I always knew there was more to the practice of these professions than the rules, science, etc. As I was reading an article today, it really helped me to voice what it takes to be a nurse when addressing one of the [...]
The workers’ compensation industry gets a lot of bad raps about how we conduct our business. There are “exposés” by organizations talking about the injustices within the workers’ compensation system. I see law firm ads throughout the country stating “they are for the people” and will help you [...]
As you may know, CompAlliance is URAC accredited for Case Management. I recently participated in a Case Management Advisory Group that reviewed the proposed revisions to the Case Management Standards. We met twice weekly from April through May. This was quite an undertaking and I do believe we were able to [...]
I just received my CMSA Today magazine (the magazine of the Case Management Society of America) and noticed the magazine this month was focused on the role Case Management plays in a variety of healthcare situations. It made me think about the role we as case managers play in [...]
National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale's birthday. In honor of National Nurse’s Week, I thought I would reflect on ome of the changes in nursing just since the 1970’s. That doesn’t sound so long ago, right? But there is [...]
Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance in Japan is about to replace claim adjusters with a software robot from IBM. The computer will scan hospital records and other documents to determine insurance payouts, factoring injuries, patient medical histories and procedures administered. Could that be the future of case management? Manufacturing jobs [...]
I was reading an article today in the New York Times titled, "Rude Doctors, Rude Nurses, Rude Patients". In this article they refer to a study on Rudeness and Medical Team Performance in a NICU. The findings were interesting. Rudeness has robust, deleterious effects on the performance of medical teams. [...]
