Provision of health care services to a patient in his or her place of residence.
What is home health care?
100
Provides home infusion therapy but they mostly provide retail duties.
What is Retail or Community Pharmacies?
100
Responsible for processing patient invoices with insurance companies, Medicare carriers and/or Medicaid programs.
What is Billing Clerk/Case Manager?
100
A drug, nutrient solution, or other substance administered into a vein.
What is intravenous?
100
The first major boom in the number of home health care agencies occurred in 1965 with this enactment.
What is Medicare/Medicaid?
200
The provision of nonprofessional services for patients in their place of residence.
What is caregiver, personal aid?
200
Home Infusion is provided by the hospital department of pharmacy utilizing the existing staff.
What is Hospital Pharmacies?
200
Responsible for negotiating prices and purchasing contracts and handling drug and product recalls.
What is Purchasing Agent or Manager?
200
Situated within, occurring within, or administered by entering a muscle.
What is intramuscular?
200
The first formal home health care agencies were established.
What is 1880s?
300
The selection, delivery, set up and maintenance of equipment and the education of the patient in the use of the equipment, all performed in the home or patient's place of residence.
What is home equipment management services?
300
Primarily provide drug distribution services to numerous nursing homes, independent senior residences, prisons, and other institutional facilities.
What is Institutional or Long-Term Care Pharmacies?
300
Detail-oriented pharmacy technician accustomed to keeping accurate, thorough documentation of their work.
What is Equipment Management Technician?
300
Performed or introduced under the skin, as an injection by a syringe.
What is subcutaneously?
300
Home infusion therapy began
and as a result the role of pharmacy in the home care setting began to grow.
What is 1970's?
400
U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65.
What is Medicare?
400
Home care is usually provided by the nurse from the physicians' office.
What is Physician-Based Practice?
400
Responsible for calling patients and making sure they have an appropriate inventory of ancillary supplies and medications.
What is Patient Service Representative?
400
Three services that generally involve home infusion therapy?
What is pharmacy, nursing, and equipment management services?
400
The number estimated by The Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services of people in the U.S. receiving home care in 2004 by more than 20,000 providers.
What is 7.6 million?
500
Medical therapy that involves the prolonged injection of pharmaceutical products, most often delivered intravenously.
What is Home Infusion Therapy?
500
Specializes only in the provision of home infusion therapy.
What is Infusion Therapy Specialty Providers?
500
Responsible for effectively and efficiently scheduling patient medication and supplies deliveries to different locations in a timely manner.
What is Warehouse Supervisor/Technician?
500
Sets standards for the quality, purity, strength, and consistency of these products–critical to the public health.
What is the U.S. Pharmacopoeia?
500
Concept that directed patients to the most appropriate and most cost efficient health care setting based on their needs.