Nickname: tango

Review: While I understand the costs of poor health of employees to their employers, I have to wave a huge red flag about this concept. It opens too many of the forbidden doors to our privacy. What's next, our bedrooms? This is analogous to the warrantless wiretapping issue. This idea precludes doctor/patient privilege and skirts confidentiality restraints. It is very dangerous and the essence of the proverbial "slippery slope!"

Date reviewed: Sep 1, 2006 1:29 PM

Nickname: Melba

Review: The plan proposed misses the opportunity to create competition between physicians and non-physicians. Most non-physicians charge much less than doctors. How about measuring the differeces in charges and outcomes?

Date reviewed: Apr 13, 2006 4:12 PM

Nickname: MElliott

Review: Dell employees should check out www.mymedicalcontrol.com. It's a consumer resource for obtaining the lowest wholesale rate for medical care, regardless of insurance carrier or health plan. Why pay more?

Date reviewed: Apr 13, 2006 2:55 PM

Nickname: JT

Review: EHRs are just the beginning - you need to make decisions with the information to be really useful. http://edmblog.fairisaac.com/weblog/2006/04/dell_healthcare.html

Date reviewed: Apr 11, 2006 10:49 PM

Nickname: Dr.Ray

Review: I think an even more interesting program is one that's going on in India. Jiva Ayurveda has a corporate healthcare program (AyurCorp) that's based on Ayurveda--India's 5,000 year-old medical science. Employees get a personal health page and their own health consultant. Doctors make office calls, and also Fedex them customized herbal solutions. Apparently the program has been run in Nokia and IBM India and is being launched in Finland. The way India has been coming up these days, I wouldn't be surprised if Dell employees soon find themselves online with Ayurvedic doctors from call centers in India.

Date reviewed: Apr 11, 2006 4:26 AM

Nickname: Dr. M. Ashcroft

Review: In the new book, "Extreme Competition," there is an entire section on "Extreme Healthcare" that offers a truly radical, but real alternative to businesses offering affordable, high-quality healthcare.

Date reviewed: Apr 11, 2006 1:11 AM

Nickname: newbe

Review: I guess nobody reckons on this being a new way around HIPPA. It is also open to abuse by companies for discrimination against worker who have poor health or are on high-cost medicines or might have to have expensive procedures later in life. Remember, it's the workers who have to willingly provide the information. This is a risky proposition given today's company management looking for ways to cut costs of employees medical insurance.

Date reviewed: Apr 10, 2006 5:46 PM