Maldonado Medical, a regional leader in Durable Medical Equipment in the Southwestern United States, has come up with an environmental green initiative for American small businesses. According to the company, this multipronged initiative will be able to improve every aspect of the country’s small businesses, which clearly suffered the hardest blow of recession.
Maldonado Medical noted in a release that as part of its environmental program, video and telecommunication reduces travel costs and time while allowing for the members of management in different states to communicate face-to-face at any time via high definition video conferencing.
Electronic signature capture allows patients to sign documents and paperwork by notebook computers equipped with styluses and touch pads, saving more than 10,000 sheets of paper annually.
In Santa Monica, Calif., the local delivery vehicle is a four door G.E.M. Car, which is a licensed electric vehicle that can operate for up to 30 miles on a single charge and drive on any street with a speed limit up to 35 miles per hour.
"It's not just good for the environment, it's good for business,” president of Maldonado Medical and spearhead of the ongoing environmental program, Brandon Maldonado, pointed out in a statement.
“Our investments in paperless recordkeeping, electronic signature capture technologies with convertible tablet PC's, state of the art HD video conferencing and low emission vehicles have already paid for themselves in travel, fuel, ink and storage. Additionally, the positive response from our clients, doctors and patients has helped our company grow during a time when many in our healthcare sector are downsizing,” he further added.
In the release, Maldonado Medical said that its green program is giving out positive, tangible results. This has encouraged the company to work out plans to further their environmental initiative, with goals to continue regional expansion while attaining carbon neutral status by 2015.
In 2009, Maldonado Medical joined the American Medical Association (AMA) and other physician associations from several states in filing a nationwide consolidated class action lawsuit. This lawsuit is against the following health insurers: Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp. and other co-conspirators such as Wellpoint, Inc., Oxford Health Plans, Health Net, Inc., and The Health Insurance Association of America over the use of a “rigged” database used to underpay physicians, providers and patients for more than a decade.
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