https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg Made with panache en-us 2017-06-09 03:45:25 UTC 2017-06-09 04:41:20 UTC hello@padlet.com 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824143 President Roosevelt asks Congress for "economic bill of rights," including right to adequate medical care.

]]> 2017-06-09 03:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824143 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824168 President Truman offers national health program plan, proposing a single system that would include all of American society.]]> 2017-06-09 03:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824168 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824216 2017-06-09 03:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824216 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824282 Following a three-year experiment in New Jersey, the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS) in 1983 established diagnosis-related groups for episodes of care within all hospitals.]]> 2017-06-09 03:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824282 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824322 President George W. Bush in his state-of-the-union address in 2004 called for universal, portable electronic health records. ]]> 2017-06-09 03:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824322 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824459 From its beginnings in the NASA space program, telemedicine or telehealth has grown into a booming business with CMS now having over 70 HCPCS/CPT codes to pay for various telehealth services.]]> 2017-06-09 03:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824459 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824911
In a major breakthrough for dietary health, this 1990 law required nutrition information on all packaged foods and regulated the use of health claims on labels.

]]> 2017-06-09 04:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824911 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824954 Oregon became the first state in the country to pass a law allowing terminally ill individuals to end their lives with lethal medication prescribed by a doctor. Since 1997, five other states have also legalized the practice.]]> 2017-06-09 04:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824954 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824977 The first artificial heart, developed by Dr. Robert Jarvik, was implanted Dr. William DeVries of the University of Utah on Dec. 2, 1982. Seattle dentist Barney Clark lived another 112 days.]]> 2017-06-09 04:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175824977 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825016 The Food and Drug Administration's approval of the first protease inhibitors in 1996 enabled three-drug combination therapy, which turned a fatal disease into a manageable condition.]]> 2017-06-09 04:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825016 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825043 The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, passed by Congress in 1985 and signed into law in 1986, required employers to offer partially subsidized health insurance to employees who lost their jobs. ]]> 2017-06-09 04:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825043 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825243 President Bill Clinton signed CHIP into law in 1997 as part of the Balanced Budget Act. By 2015, more than 8 million children received health insurance coverage under the program.]]> 2017-06-09 04:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825243 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825305 The FDA approves the first targeted cancer therapy, imatinib or Gleevec, in 2001 for chronic myelogenous leukemia. ]]> 2017-06-09 04:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825305 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825475 In 1984, research groups led by Dr. Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Dr. Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco, identify a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS. A global fight over who discovered the retrovirus ensues.]]> 2017-06-09 04:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825475 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825870 A federally funded program created in 1994 provides free vaccines to children in low-income families. Vaccines include MMR, flu and HPV.]]> 2017-06-09 04:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825870 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825901 The first computed tomography scan of a patient took place in England in 1971. This year, an estimated 78 million CT scans will be conducted on far more sophisticated machines.]]> 2017-06-09 04:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825901 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825944 The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush in December 2003, creates Medicare Part D, an unfunded mandate for Medicare to pay for seniors' prescription drugs through private insurance plans.]]> 2017-06-09 04:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175825944 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826018 Fifteen years after the first nurse practitioner program was established in 1965 at the University of Colorado, and five years after the American Nurses Association established a separate council for NPs, their ranks by 1979 had crossed the 15,000 mark.]]> 2017-06-09 04:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826018 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826076 While the 1996 law protects coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, and requires national standards for electronic healthcare transactions, it becomes best known for its sections protecting patient privacy.]]> 2017-06-09 04:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826076 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826599 The World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated on May 8, 1980.]]> 2017-06-09 04:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826599 10014192 https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826667 A team led by John Mallard of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland obtained the first clinically useful image of a patient's internal tissues using MRI imaging on Aug. 28, 1980. Refinements over the next 15 years led to its widespread use by the middle 1990s.]]> 2017-06-09 04:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/10014192/9aixmvrd48lg/wish/175826667