History of Healthcare in US History

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History of Healthcare in US History

• Topical Themes slide 2
• Chronological slide 3

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Historical Themes about Healthcare

• Healthcare In Society
• Public Health
• Waste Management Sewage, Fluoride
• Pandemics Influenza-1918, SARS 2003, Typhoid
  Vaccinations
• Government oversight
• Flexner Report
• JCAHO
• HEW, HHS, CMS
• Church sponsorship
• Professional Associations
• Licensure of healthcare professionals
• Technology Introductions
• Bio medical research
• Medical devices
• Early technology
• recent innovations implants, radiology etc
• Software
• Technology Report of 1999
• Bar coding

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Chronological Healthcare Curriculum

• Colonial Period Healthcare
• Hospitals In Society
• Providers physicians nurses faith healers
• Civil War Era Healthcare
• Ambulances - wartime innovation
• Disease incidence prevalence
• Inter war years
• National Cancer Institute founded 1937
• Health Insurance Introduced
• Group Health Insurance grows Blue croos Plans
  Develop
• Post War Years
• Financing
• Hospitals
• Hill-Burton Act
• Semi private room become the norm
• JCAHO created 1951
• Hospital expenditures at 6 b in 1958
• Theme is Care In Crisis at 69 AHA Convention
• Hospital indicators created in 64 re Utilization

Abridged version