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"Ministry of Social Development has observed the success at ACC sincetheir adoption of the MDA in 1999, reducing absence significantly," accordingto Dr. David Rankin, Senior Advisor for The Ministry of Social Development.From July 1999 through October 2000, the average number of days per casedropped nearly 50%, attributed in part to implementation of guidelines. "As anintegral component of our reform of the Sickness Benefit and Invalid's Benefitin New Zealand, case managers will rely on this tool to refine our return-to-employment systems. The integration of the MDA into case management practicewill be fundamental in developing work plans and assisting people intoemployment."
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"New Zealand's success in reducing disability-related absence in theworkplace demonstrates the impact of our disability duration guidelines,"states Presley Reed, founder and Chief Medical Officer of Reed Group. "Ourprimary goal is to help people. Reed Group believes that productive endeavoris essential to an individual's well being. In turn, we believe that healthy,timely return to work is as important to the employee as it is to theemployer."
The ACC currently uses Reed Group's Data Integration product, which isbased on The Medical Disability Advisor, Workplace Guidelines for DisabilityDurations, Fifth Edition (MDA). The MDA D.I. license provides integrateddisability management capabilities for enterprise-wide use, offering real-timeaccess to the contents of Reed Group's disability duration guidelines. Byfully integrating into an organization's case management software, teammembers have a powerful resource to assist in the delivery of accurate andefficient case management.
About Accident Compensation Corporation
The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) administers New Zealand'saccident compensation scheme, which provides personal injury cover for all NewZealand citizens, residents and temporary visitors to New Zealand. ACC is aCrown entity whose responsibilities include determining whether claims forinjury are covered by the scheme and providing entitlements to those who areeligible and buying health and disability support services to treat, care forand rehabilitate injured people.
About Reed Group, Ltd
Reed Group was founded in 1981 to address workplace productivity andemployee absenteeism in the corporate environment. Reed Group maintains fourkey lines of business: Guidelines, Service, Data Analytics, and Education.Reed Group publishes The Medical Disability Advisor guidelines (now in itsFifth Edition) which are considered to be the industry-standard reference fordetermining disability duration and outcomes benchmarking (textbook, Windowssoftware, Internet and data integration formats). Reed Group also providesintegrated disability case management service for non-occupational andoccupational leaves as well as administration of other leaves of absence toemployers in the U.S. and abroad. For more information, visithttp://www.reedgroup.com.
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