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121Health care provider — A health care provider is an individual or an institution that provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to individuals, families or communities. An individual health care provider (also …
122Continuity of Care Document — The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) specification is an XML based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of a patient summary clinical document for exchange. The CCD specification is a constraint on the HL7… …
123Health care reform — This article is about political movements affecting the delivery of health care and health care systems. For more information about movements to improve health, see Health reform. Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major… …
124private patient — noun In the UK, a patient whose treatment is not being paid for by the National Health Service • • • Main Entry: ↑private * * * private patient UK US noun [countable] [singular private patient plural …
125Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care — Coastal Hospice and Palliative Care is a non profit health care organization founded in 1980. It is located in Salisbury, Maryland and serves Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester counties. Its special mission as a hospice is to serve the… …
126Medicare Quality Cancer Care Demonstration Act — The United States Medicare Quality Cancer Care Demonstration Act of 2009 (H.R. 2872) is a landmark, national initiative intended to enhance the quality of cancer care, focused on seniors covered by Medicare (approximately 45% of cancer patients… …
127Continuity of Care Record — (CCR)[1] is a health record standard specification developed jointly by ASTM International, the Massachusetts Medical Society[1] (MMS), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Academy of Family Physicians… …
128Acute care — is necessary treatment of a disease for only a short period of time in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness. Many hospitals are acute care facilities with the goal of discharging the patient as soon as the patient… …
