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2. Health care - Wikipedia

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   Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...

3. Telemedicine: The Benefits of Virtual Healthcare

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   Telemedicine is also called telehealth, evisits, e-health, or mhealth (m is for mobile). It’s the delivery of medical care from a distance. In other words, it’s healthcare that doctors provide ...

4. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - Wikipedia

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   The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA or the Kennedy – Kassebaum Act [1] [2]) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1996. [3] It aimed to alter the transfer of healthcare information, stipulated the guidelines ...

5. Gender Bias in Healthcare: Examples, Impact, Solutions, and More

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   Gender bias in healthcare weaves a toxic thread throughout history. Take hysteria, for example. This catch-all “diagnosis” originated in ancient Egyptian and Greek medicine, but it was widely ...

6. What to Know About Patient Portals - WebMD

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   A patient portal is a secure website set up by a health care system, hospital, or clinic. The tools (or features) vary, depending on the portal. Patient portals can help you access medical records ...

7. How Telehealth Is Making Healthcare More Inclusive

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   This means the fact that insurance companies and healthcare systems were open to making coverage of telehealth services more inclusive is key moving forward. “We want to continue to have better ...

8. Health psychology - Wikipedia

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   Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. [1] The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly.

9. The Fight Against Ageism in Health Care - WebMD

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   The Dangers of Ageism in Our Health System. Research during the last 2 decades has implicated ageism in the under- and over-treatment of older patients, as too many doctors mistake acute medical ...