Benefit Central

The health of your employees is one of the most important concerns in your company. You want to make sure that your employees have healthy and balanced lives so that they are productive.

At the same time, the costs of health care are increasing, and they will continue to do so in the future. Your human resources personnel are fielding questions every day:

(If you have a printed provider directory, it is already obsolete the day you received it - providers are continually being added to and removed from health plans.)

You also want to encourage employees to become more proactive in their own health care decisions.

Employees also want to make their own preventive medicine and personal health care choices. This is even more so if they have recurring or chronic illnesses.

Private Medical Search Engine Services:

Medical Central's Search Engine product is an Internet-based search engine series of web sites for employers to assist employees with their health care. The Private Search Engine is a sub-set of our nation-wide databases utilized in the 650 medical and health search engine web sites of the Medical Central Online family (www.medicalcentral.com).

With the Private Medical Search Engine, a company's human resource department can off-load most health care questions concerning where to find doctors, chiropractors, hospitals, and other practitioners. The databases are current and are continually updated by our staff and our practitioner, hospital, eldercare, and other providers.

We have many health care subscribers in our network. Our practitioner, hospital, eldercare facility, and other subscribers build and maintain their web sites in our environment. They also update their amenities, programs, services, specialties, and surgical procedures on a continuing basis in the search engine databases. We have over 650 search engine web sites for your employees to use to find the resources they need.

Your Private Medical Search Engine is customized for your needs based on the health plans that you are contracted with i.e. all contracted providers in a company's health plans are organized into logical categories so employees can easily search. They can search for a provider by health plan, by location, provider type, specialty, diseases treated, and surgical procedures performed. Once they choose a specific provider they can view education, specialties, sub-specialties, credentialing information and treatment philosophies. They can even request an appointment. (The provider needs to enable this feature so they can accept the on-line appointment requests).

At your option, your Private Medical Search Engine also includes a custom web site designed for you from one of our standard templates. We will work with you to make the site as attractive and easy to use as possible.

To make the system effective for your employees, you must provide us with your health plans you are contracted with so we can front-load the files for your employees.

If requested, we can also provide update privileges to your human resources staff so they can also update new provider or plan data.

Prices for the Private Search Engine service are based on the number of employees in the company.

Medical Central has over 2100 detailed descriptions of diseases and disorders that can be utilized by a company's employee for their disease or disorder management.

All disease information is created and peer reviewed by our physician MD staff and physician MD editorial board.

Each Disease Management information page is linked by a patent-pending process to our search engines. From each disease management page, each employee can immediately search for a provider who would be the best resource for a disorder.

Each employee receives an electronic historical health folder called My Health Folder that is used by them to store their health information. Each time your employee visits the doctor or has a health-related event, they can ener the information into their folder through an ID and password. If they are diagnosed with a disease, disorder, or condition that needs to be monitored, they can set up a section in the folder to refer back to as needed.

The My Health Folder option is a personal folder. It is secured from one of our secure servers using a SSL 128 bit encryption key. As a result neither your human resources personnel nor any Medical Central employee will be able to access or read any of the My Health Folder contents unless the employee provides the necessary key.

Prices for this option are also based on the number of employees in the company.

For more information please contact us at:
Sales Department
Medical Central Online
P.O. Box 1366
Highland Park, IL 60035
847-266-9404
sales@medicalcentral.com