MLC MEDICALMLC Mandated Medical MMedicalManagement for MarinersManaged medical care specialist Future Care is changing the way the maritime industry By Joseph Keefelooks at mariner healthcareThe Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) has forever Studying Seafarer Health: a fulltime job changed the way vessel operators look at healthcare for the In May of last year, an ambitious effort to bring seafarer world’s 1.3 million mariners. For some, it means simple com- healthcare to a new, higher standard kicked off when the Yale pliance with a minimum set of standards and managing the University School of Medicine, in conjunction with managed costs associated with that standard. For others, MLC is a call healthcare solution provider Future Care, Inc., released a study to arms for those who work to make sure that healthcare at sea entitled Preliminary Evaluation of Seafarers Health Care and means more than just emergency telemedicine services. Determination of Predictors of Illness. For perhaps the very For Christina DeSimone, CEO of Future Care, Inc., managed