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Who should not have access to employee medical records?

Business Management Daily

The different data in aggregated medical records are known as attributes, which healthcare professionals use for data mining. For instance, if a healthcare facility needs to examine everyone that underwent a particular procedure, they could data mine the aggregated records of every patient that received it.

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Who should not have access to employee medical records?

Business Management Daily

The different data in aggregated medical records are known as attributes, which healthcare professionals use for data mining. For instance, if a healthcare facility needs to examine everyone that underwent a particular procedure, they could data mine the aggregated records of every patient that received it.

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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Few “industrial diseases” were included in early legislation and typically by industry or process ( things like lead poisoning in smelting or sulfur poisoning in coal mining) and not diseases. Reinsurers and large insurers often provided tools and assessments to help insurers identify the risk and make plans accordingly.