Medical Services in Corporate Era
A network of organizations that provides or arranges to provide a coordination continuum of services to a defined population and is willing to be held clinically and fiscally accountable for the outcomes and health status of the population serviced
what is Integrated delivery system
An unspecialized institution existing during the 18th and mid-19th centuries that mainly served general welfare functions, essentially providing shelter,
What is Almshouse
Designed to make cash payments to workers for wages lost due to work related injuries or diseases.
What is workers compensation
Plays a central role in health care services by evaluating a patients health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment.
What is a Physician
_____ are main caregivers for sick and injured patients and address physical, mental, and emotional needs.
What is a nurse
Use of telecommunications technology that enables physicians to conduct two-way, interactive video consultations or transmit digital images, such as x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging results, to other sites.
What is telemedicine
Built by the state governments for patients with untreatable, chronic mental illness.
What is asylums
What year did the blueprint for modern health insurance come out.
What is 1929
How many states require a physician to be licensed before they can practice medicine.
What is all states
Clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse-midwives all fall under what term?
What is advanced-practice nurse
Health care information and services offered over the internet by professionals and nonprofessionals alike.
What is E-Health
An institution that existed in preindustrial America to quarantine people with contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox, or typhoid.
What is pesthouse
A measure of one's social position in relation to others, typically based on income, education, and occupation.
What is socioeconomic status
Taking a holistic approach to patient care, this type of physician emphasize the musculoskeletal system
What is Osteopathic medicine
clinical professionals who practice in many areas in which physicians practice but do not possess an MD or a DO degree.
What is nonphysician practitioner
Various forms of cross-border economic activities driven by global exchange of information, production of goods and services more economically in developing countries, and increased interdependence of mature and emerging world economies.
What is globalization.
Concerted activities of physicians, mainly to protect their own interests, through such associations as the American Medical Association
What is organized medicine
A program in which eligibility depends on income.
What is means-tested program.
This medical profession takes an active intervention using preventive medicine.
What is allopathic medicine
Typically, requires less than 2 years of postsecondary education, and are trained to perform procedures.
What is a technician
A joint federal-state program of health insurance for the poor.
What is medicaid
What war made a noticeable difference in the transformation in U.S medicine.
What is the American Civil War
Systemic changes in how medial care is financed or delivered
What is Health care reform
Profession that is organized around the site of care- that is, the hospital- instead of specific organ, disease, or age.
What is a hospitalists
Treat patients with diseases or deformities of the feet by performing surgical operations, prescribing medications and corrective devices, and administering physiotherapy.
What is a podiatrists