Groundbreaking Medical Discoveries
the father of antiseptic surgery
Who is Joseph Lister?
confines eligibility to those below predetermined income level
What is Means-tested program?
when consumers travel abroad to receive medical care
What is Medical travel ?
receiving both medical education after graduating and a paid on-the-job training in the hospital
What is Residency?
specialize in drug therapy who work closely with physicians
What is Parmacotherapists?
a physician who implemented the policy of hand washing in 1847 which led to the innovation of aseptic technique.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
also known as the Kerr Mills Act, states were given federal grants in 1960, to allow the extension of health services under welfare programs to low income elderly
What is The Medical Assistance Act?
the electronic transmission of radiological images over a distance
What is Teleradiology?
a specialty that focuses around the site of care which is the hospital as a whole. Hospitalists manage the care of hospitalized patients and do not categorize by a special organ, disease, or age.
What is Hospitalists?
determine and prepare drugs that are needed for nutritional therapy
What is Nutrition-support pharmacists?
a dentist who used nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for a tooth surgery in 1846. This discovered anesthesia which has advanced surgery.
Who is Horace Wells?
the use of social security funds to finance hospital insurance and short term nursing home coverage after being discharged from a hospital
What is Part A of Medicare?
technological advances in the distant transmission of image data which came up in the 1900’s. Made it possible for distant health care such as real-time transmission of video examinations and telesurgery.
What is Telemedicine?
physicians trained in family medicine/general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics who provide preventive services and treat frequently occurring/less severe problems.
What is Primary care physicians (Generalists)?
also known as nuclear pharmacists, they produce radioactive drugs used for patient diagnosis and therapy
What is Radiopharmicists?
he made the discovery of antibacterial properties of penicillin in 1929
Who is Alexander Fleming?
the use of government subsidized insurance that an elderly pays for part of the premiums, to cover physicians’ bills
What is Part B of medicare?
driven by consumer demand for health care information and services which are offered online by professional and nonprofessionals.
What is E-health?
needs to be certified in a certain area of medical specialization which usually requires more years of advanced residency training on top of additional years of practice in that specialty.
What is Non Primary care physicians (Specialists)?
the role of pharmacists which they educate and counsel
What is Pharmaceutical care?
he became the pioneer of the germ theory of disease and microbiology in 1860. He often demonstrated sterilization techniques
Who is Louis Pasteur?
based on the Kerr Mills program to cover eligible poor people, this program is financed through federal matching funds to the states which are based on financial needs determined by each state’s per capita income.
What is Medicaid?
variety of forms of cross-border economic activities which are driven by global information exchange, production of goods and services in developing countries, and interdependence of mature and emerging world economies.
What is Globalization?
a shortage/surplus of specific physicians that are needed to continue the health status of a given population at an optimum level.
What is Maldistribution?
area in which pharmacists receive broadened clinical involvement
What is Disease management?