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Unit 1 key terms
Term | Definition |
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Acute infectious disease | An illness with sudden onset that has a intense but short effect on the body |
Affordable care act | Healthcare reform legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010 with a goal of increasing access to health insurance while controlling healthcare costs. |
Center for Disease Control | Branch of the federal government that tracks the health of the nation and provides support to identify causes of epidemics and food-borne illnesses |
electronic health records | Individual patient health record stored in a computer database for easy access by physicians and other healthcare workers regardless of the setting |
epidemics | an outbreak of disease in a certain geographic are in greater number than usual; the most common cause of an epidemic in the United State is influenza. |
globalization | ease of access to travel and transportation of food products. Increase exposure to communicable diseases and food-borne illness, and adds to challenges in tracking the origin of disease of food-borne illness. |
Human Genome Project | An international research project that sequenced and mapped all human genes and allows prediction of illness and adverse drug response. |
Infant mortality | The number of deaths in children less than one year of age per 1,000 live births; reflects the quality of health care. |
Infectious disease | Illness caused by pathogenic viruses, fungi, or bacteria and transmitted by person-to-person contact of through a vector such as infected mosquito, e.g., malaria or West Nile virus. |
Medicaid | Healthcare program for low-income pregnant women, seniors at 100% of the federal poverty level, and individuals with disabilities; jointly funded by federal and state governments. |
MRSA | A strain of the S. auteus bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics. In community setting, MRSA is usually confined to the skin; in medical facilities, MRSA causes life-threatening bloodstream and surgical site infections and pneumonia. |
Sepsis | the body's extreme response to an infection. It is a life-threatening medical emergency. happens when an infection you already have triggers a chain reaction throughout your body. |
World Health Organization | Agency of the United Nations that directs and coordinates international health within the United Nations' system. |
CHAMPVA | Program that provides health care for family members of disabled or deceased member of the military services. |
Diagnosis and treatment | Identifying and treating injury or disease |
Disease prevention | Public health programs designed to reduce the risk of injury or illness in the workplace or for the general public |
Mental health services | Diagnosis and treatment of patients with mental or emotional illnesses, including alcohol or substance abuse. |
Health maintenance organization | Insurance provider that administers basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services to enrolless who pay a fixed fee. |
Long term services and supports | system of providing health and personal care support for the disabled, elderly, or others with chronic health problems in people's homes instead of an institution. |
Managed care organization | Healthcare plan with established cost controls and designed to improve quality of care. |
Medicaid | Healthcare program for low-income pregnant women, seniors at 100% of the federal poverty level, and individuals with disabilities; jointly funded by federal and state governments. |
Medicare | Provides health care to the disabled and those over 65 years of age |
preferred provider organization | Health insurance covered by an employer, shared with the employee or purchased through a Health Exchange. |
reimbursement | to make a return payment to |
Geriatrics | Branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and aging people |
long term services and supports | Systems of providing health and personal care support for the disabled, elderly, or others with chronic health problems in people's homes instead of an institution. |
Program of All-inclusive care for the elderly | program that provides comprehensive preventive, primary, acute and long-term care services so older individuals with chronic care needs can continue living in their local community. |
Obama Care | a common term used to describe the ACA named after President Barack Obama, who signed the bill into law. |
HealthCare.gov | Website operated by HHS that provides information for Americans seeking to obtain health insurance. |
Medicaid Expansion | The ACA gave individual states the option of expanding Medicaid to those at 133% of the federal poverty level. |
Billing process | The method of submitting and following up with claims made to government payers, insurance companies, and patients |
functional magnetic resonance imaging | A method of tracing the work of brain cells by tracking changes in oxygen levels and blood flow to the brain. |
Medical technology | This procedures, equipment, and process by which medical are is delivered. |
Patient portal | An online application that allows patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers. |
picture archiving and communication system | tech that captures and integrates diagnostic and radiological images from various devices, stores them, and disseminates them to a health record, a clinical repository, or other points of care. |
telemedicine | the use of electronic communications and information technologies to provide or support clinical care at a distance. |