A Decision Support System for Employee Healthcare

Author

Mukherjee, Chhandak ; Gupta, Kunal ; Nallusamy, Rajarathnam

Author_Institution

Convergence Lab., Infosys Labs. Infosys Ltd., Bangalore, India

fYear

2012

fDate

12-15 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

135

Abstract

Health and well being of employees are of great concern for most of the large organizations. In addition to paying most of the health insurance premium for the employees, the employer also provide few in house doctors to take care of employees health at work place. In this paper we present the system iHealth, a decision support system that can reduce the cost of employee healthcare and increase health awareness of the work force. To the best of our knowledge no healthcare DSS has been implemented inside any public or private company.

Keywords

decision support systems; health care; insurance; medical information systems; occupational health; organisational aspects; personnel; decision support system; employee health insurance premium; employee healthcare cost reduction; healthcare DSS; iHealth system; in-house doctors; private company; public company; work force health awareness; work place; Companies; Decision support systems; Diseases; Hospitals; Radiation detectors; Schedules; Basic Health Record; Decision Support System; Health Awareness; Health Insurance; In house Doctor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services in Emerging Markets (ICSEM), 2012 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mysore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5729-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEM.2012.25

Filename

6468189