ROI for alcohol treatment exceeds that of wireless e-mail devices.Screening workers for alcohol abuse and treating those with drinking problems can yield more than $2 in health care savings for every $1 invested, which is better than the return on investment (ROD offered by wireless e-mail devices, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an alcohol treatment advocacy organization. Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, based at the George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. Medical Center, says its Alcohol Treatment Return on Investment Calculator calculator or calculating machine, device for performing numerical computations; it may be mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic. The electronic computer is also a calculator but performs other functions as well. (available online at www.alcoholcostcalculator.org/roi) shows that alcohol screening and treatment can provide a 215 percent ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . Comparable returns for employer investments in heart disease management and wireless e-mail devices (of which the BlackBerry blackberry, name for several species of thorny plants of the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae (rose family). See bramble. blackberry is the most popular) are 278 percent and 162 percent, respectively, according to recent studies. Alcohol problems add more than $35 billion annually to the health care costs paid by U.S. employers. Workers with alcohol problems are more likely to miss work and incur higher medical bills than their colleagues who do not abuse alcohol, and their productivity is lower as well. For more information about how employers can address alcohol problems in the workplace, visit www.ensuringsolutions.org. |
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