Community-based gathering of people with a festival atmosphere that offers vendors with health-related services, educational lectures, diagnostic screening, and counseling services for prevention of disease and to promote health.
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Health Free Standing Emergency Medical Surgical Center
A facility whose primary purpose is the provision of care for emergency medical conditions. Also, called emergi-center or urgi-center.
Health Free Standing Outpatient Surgical Center
A facility which only provides outpatient surgical services. Also called surgi-center.
Health Gatekeeper Model
Under this model the primary care physician (the gatekeeper) is the initial contact for the patient for medical care and for referrals. This is also called a closed access or closed panel.
Health Generic Drug
A drug which is exactly the same as a brand name drug and which is allowed to be produced after the brand name drug’s patent has expired. It is also called a “generic equivalent.”
Health History
A form used by underwriters to assist in evaluating groups or individuals to determine whether they are acceptable risks.
Health history (Health Insurance)
A tool used in the underwriting of a health care policy to determine whether they are acceptable risks.
Health Informatics Standards Planning Panel (HISPP)
Organization accredited and staffed by the American National Standards Institute in 1991. It was replaced by the Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (HISB) in 1995. See Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (HISB) .
health information
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), any data, oral or recorded in any medium that is created or received by a health care provider, health plan, public health authority, employer, life insurer, school or university, or health care clearinghouse. The data relate to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual.
health information exchange (HIE)
Electronic transmission of health-related data among health care organizations that conforms to nationally recognized standards.