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As a valued customer, Daman invites you to join its new online Customer Club. The Club will be a platform that offers different information and tools to help you lead a healthier lifestyle. Check out the club on www.damanhealth.ae/club - the team recommends checking out the healthy recipes on offer.
The feature is ActiveLife, a program that provides discounts and special services from Daman’s trusted partners with a focus on healthy living. The club’s website maintains an up-dated list of the offers and partners signed up. We now have over 40 brands to select from. We also have an AcitveLife Running Club gathering every Tuesday at Yas Marina Circuit – its open for everyone so bring your friends!
If you have a MyDaman account, you can access the club immediately; otherwise all you need is your card insurance details to register. Once registered, you will also have a MyDaman account to manage your claims online.
| Get involved with the activelife community and like us on facebook |
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| Join ActiveLife’s Running Club Every Tuesday @ 6pm Yas Marina Circuit |
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Daman members will soon enjoy the benefits of a fully automated system for issuing prescriptions. Following a successful test last month, Daman will introduce the service later this year that will enable Daman members to secure medication without paper-based prescriptions in Abu Dhabi.
As part of a typical e-prescription transaction, the doctor is required to submit data of the prescription via an electronic processing system on a platform managed by the Health Authority – Abu Dhabi.
Once all checks on the prescription are cleared, the e-prescription is saved on the electronic database. The patient can then collect the drugs from the pharmacy, which can download the prescription and electronically send confirmation request to Daman’s automated system.
E-prescriptions help identify negative drug interaction and possible duplicate therapy as checks on the members’ prescription history with Daman are performed. This improves the overall medical process and ensures greater care and diligence in drug administration.
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| Diligently working to keep you safe |
Last year, Daman has investigated over 1,000 cases and audited 500 medical services providers which includes hospitals, clinics and pharmacies, to ensure that members insurance policies have not been abused nor been taken advantage of for fraud.
Instances of fraud and abuse are not only a financial risk to the premiums members pay us but can also be a health risk. Members may be subjected to treatments and procedures that are not medically necessary.
Over 10 providers from our network were delisted from our network for continuous misadministration leading to abuse and two to the criminal courts for suspicion of fraud. Daman will boost its efforts this year by strengthening the auditing team and introduced new procedures to vet claims.
From this issue onwards we will feature tips to help you protect yourself from fraud.
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Abu Dhabi physicians to issue electronic attested sick leaves
Starting March 1st doctors in Abu Dhabi will be issuing electronically attested sick leaves from the Abu Dhabi Health Authority (HAAD). The initiative by the authority aims to reduce the time taken to attest sick leaves –a usual requirement by many government and employers for extended leaves over seven working days. The attestation however will be done for all sick leaves.
A doctor would need to submit a request to a dedicated HAAD online page detailing the patient’s conditions and recommended days of leave to be taken. For leaves less than 7 days, the doctor will receive a response instantly which, if approved, can be printed and handed to the patients as an attestation. Attestation for longer periods of leave will be reviewed by HAAD medical committee before issuance.
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Get your kids off the couch
By Dr. Alfons Grabosch – Health Support Manager
With an estimated 346 million people suffering from diabetes worldwide, the disease has become so pervasive in our communities that it leaves us to question not if we know anyone suffering, but rather how many we know.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), it is estimated that without proper lifestyle intervention, 42.6 million people living in the Middle East will be diagnosed with diabetes by 2030. In the UAE alone, 19% of residents currently suffer from diabetes, and health studies indicate that these numbers are on the rise.
Until recently, it was believed that children were only at risk of contracting Type 1 diabetes – an unpreventable form of the disease developed during childhood.
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Type 2 diabetes – commonly associated with poor eating habits and lack of exercise – has historically been an ‘adult’s disease’, and accounts for roughly 90 per cent of all diabetes cases worldwide.
Over the past 20 years, childhood obesity has emerged as a global epidemic, and unless immediate action is taken, diseases such as diabetes will continue to spread at an alarming rate. Type-2 diabetes is now alarmingly growing amongst children.
The tragedy is that nearly all of these cases could have easily been prevented through a healthy diet and moderate daily exercise – activities in which all children should be engaging, regardless of their physical condition. The Abu Dhabi Education Council recently announced that a staggering 31 per cent of Abu Dhabi school children are obese. Statistics such as these remind us that not nearly enough is being done to protect our children against this destructive disease.
Parents ought to participate vigorously in getting their children to lead a more active life. Enrolling them in a football or swimming club would be a good start. On a wider scale, the community need to access to indoor sports facility as the hot weather in this part of the world is a deterrent to outdoor activities.
Obesity is most often a result of poor eating habits and lack of exercise; once a child has reached this stage, most of the damage has already been done. The only successful key to prevention is through learned habits – healthy habits which must be demonstrated consistently by parents when children are young.
We are advocates for our children’s health and wellbeing – are we prepared to face the consequences if we don’t take this role seriously? |
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