Health record

Health records must be kept of the health surveillance caiTied out for at least 40 years after the last entry. Appropriate action should be taken based upon the results, i.e. it should be established how and when workers should be referred for further examination and how the results will be used to improve the management of health risks. 

Manages occupational health records, MSDSs, chemical information, and employee records. Aids with emergency release reports. 

When these are, or may be, exceeded the employer must ensure that the enforcing authority has been notified, maintain a health record of exposed workers and make sure that they receive regular medical examinations, and identify work areas where the action level is liable to be exceeded as asbestos areas. ... 

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These data can then be fed into electronic medical records (EMR) such as those the NHS plans to introduce throughout the UK over the next 2 years. This represents a process that will ultimately both reduce the frequency with which patients have to visit their doctor and improve health care delivery. EMR or electronic personal health records (as they are also known) have already been established, or are being established, in many European nations, such as Denmark. The United States, with its decentralized health care industry, is behind the curve in these efforts. However, in early fall of 2005, IBM and eight other IT companies that form the Technology CEO Council (TCC), including Intel, HP, Dell, Motorola, EMC, Applied Materials, NCR, and Unisys committed to adopt electronic health records based on open standards. In addition to these private sector efforts, the US Department of... 

Veterans Affairs will also begin rolling out an on-line system for personal health records. 

OSHA s right of inspection includes safety and health records. 

Employee health records, of course, are not the only source of valuable health knowledge in the plant. Workers compensation and insurance records, although limited in number, can be even more useful if they are available. 

In those jurisdictions where a formal workers compensation system is in effect, the compensation health records provide the most definitive information available because the medical, social, and work history of each employee who applies for workers compensation is investigated in comprehensive detail and is made available in large part to management. Currently, relatively few illnesses, as compared to injuries, are considered for workers compensation claims. However, if a cluster can be found with the same type of complaint, that information can be invaluable. Similar information can be obtained from private insurance companies who provide employee coverage in place of workers compensation. 

Guide to Health Records for Health Services in Small Industries Industrial Ventilation—A Manual of Recommended Practice Air Sampling Instruments for Evaluation of Atmospheric Contaminants American Industrial Hygiene Association, 66 South Miller Road, Akron, OH 44311-1087... 

Petition for complete corporate disclosure of medical health records to the individuals concerned. 

Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society s (HIMSS) Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence for Electronic Health Record (eHR), was able to reduce medication errors by 35% and decrease medication turnaround time by 52% through the use of an integrated clinical information system. 

Generally, gun rights advocates want gun ownership to be treated in a way similar to speech or writing. Every adult citizen who does not have a criminal or mental health record should be able to own and carry the gun of his or her choice with minimal restrictions (such as banning guns in some public places like schools). Any criminal who commits a crime with that firearm, however, should be prosecuted and punished. 

National Instant Check System (NICS) A nationwide database of criminal and certain mental health records, used to allow gun dealers to verify that a purchaser can legally obtain a firearm. 

Detailed sampling of PM)0 around a number of opencast coal sites around the world (Pless-Mulloli et al. 2000a), coupled with careful statistical analyses of public health records for communities located near to and far away from such sites (e.g., Pless-Mulloli et al. 2000a, b, 2001 Howel et al. 2001) have recently shed considerable light on the magnitude of such... 

Health effects studies, such as epidemiological studies, utilizing employee health records require that the records be complete, well maintained, and readily accessible, and that they contain comparable information. These requirements apply to records for all sites. Therefore, automation and centralization of the records is practically a necessity. Records from multiple CSDP sites with multiple contractors at each site may be kept in a variety of forms and according to a variety of procedures. Standardized forms and procedures for all sites would ensure that records could be used for health effects studies. Epidemiological studies on occupation-ally related diseases are most meaningful when employee exposure data are available for correlation with the health data. Complete, high-quality health and... 

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