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A service used by patients to confer with their providers via cell phone, or other multimedia outlets.
What is Telemedicine
The study of diseases
What is epidemiology?
A community for geriatrics over 55 usually in housing .
What is a retirement community?
Robots are usually used to perform surgeries.
What is long distance surgery!
A group of individual parts that work together to form a unified whole
What is a system?
A facility for geriatrics to stay during the day , may receive lunch and participate in activities for the day.
What is an Adult Daycare Center?
Reduces time of hospital stays to reduce costs, usually free standing clinics
what is outpatient services?
Funded mainly by private insurance agencies and out of pocket payments
What is private insurance?
right to respect, right to appeal, right to informed consent, right to refuse treatment, right to emergency care, right to choose providers, right to privacy, right to appeal
What is Patient Bill of Rights?
Partnership between the healthcare providers and the patient
What is patient centered care?
To request copies of your medical records
What is Self Advocacy?
A facility for geriatrics to stay to receive further treatment, medications, therapy etc.
Can be short term or long term.
What is a nursing home?
Serves to protect the health of individual people and communities.
What is Public Health?
Was called the Father of Medicine?
Who is Hippocrates?
Change in focus from “sick” care to “ health “care
What is Wellness?