History of Healthcare
The average lifespan during the time of ancient Egyptians and Babylonians
What is 30 years?
When there is a greater number of cases of an infectious disease than in a normal population or area. Meaning more sick people in an area than healthy people.
What is an epidemic?
Qualities a healthcare worker must have.
What is being a lifelong learner, being flexible, and open minded to change?
First to keep accurate health records
A group of individual parts that work together to form a unified whole. (Ex. your family, hospitals, MD offices)
What is a system?
They treated illness in the primitive era.
Who are Priests and medicine men?
An epidemic that spreads to a much larger population or across several countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
The Chinese documented over _________ herbs and established the science of _______________.
What is 1,000 and Acupuncture
The Act that passed to reduce the number of uninsured individuals in the US.
What is the Patient protection and affordable care act. Or What is the Affordable care act.
What is a pharmacy also known as?
What is an apothocary?
Believed to be the first physician
Who is Imhotep?
What group of people developed superior Drainage and Sanitation systems and set up public hospitals?
Romans
Described as total good health.
What is wellness?
The study of medicine was forbidden during this time.
What is a Dark Ages?
This group of people were the first to charge fees for healthcare.
What is Babylonians
Was used as medicine during primitive times derives from the poppy plant.
What is Opium?
How was the bubonic plague spread?.
Through fleas and rats
The reason healthcare costs are going up (rising).
What is advancements in technology?
Using someone's health info as if it were your own, Billing for medical services that were not provided, Delivering unnecessary medical services, Misrep. the nature of medical services provided to obtain higher reimbursement, providing or receiving money for participating in any of the schemes above.
What is Healthcare Fraud?
What did Robert Hooke Prove?
All living things are made of cells
Known as the Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
What major medical advancement was made during the Middle ages?
What is the formation of the first true medical school
Right to: Emergency treatment, respect, informed consent, refuse treatment, choose providers, privacy, appeal, and patient responsibilities.
What are the Patients Bill of Rights?
The law that protects patient health information and confidentiality.
What is HIPAA.
Wilhelm von Roentgen developed what in the early 1900's?
X-ray Machine