Healthcare
noun
The care and services provided by a health professional or by a health facility, like a clinic or hospital.
He works in the healthcare industry, helping to manage a hospital.
Often appears as...
- healthcare provider
- healthcare system
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Technical
noun
The organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community.
The government promised to provide free healthcare to every citizen.
Often appears as...
- public healthcare
- private healthcare
noun
Healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
Many people rely on public healthcare for their medical needs.
Often appears as...
- healthcare management
- healthcare policy
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Formal
Academic
noun
The care and services provided by a health professional or by a health facility, like a clinic or hospital.
He works in the healthcare industry, helping to manage a hospital.
Often appears as...
- healthcare provider
- healthcare system
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community.
The government promised to provide free healthcare to every citizen.
Often appears as...
- public healthcare
- private healthcare
noun
Healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
Many people rely on public healthcare for their medical needs.
Often appears as...
- healthcare management
- healthcare policy
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Industry Specific
Used when talking about jobs and businesses related to medical care and services.
She is studying to join the healthcare industry next year.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Context
Mentioned often in discussions about working at or managing medical facilities.
Their healthcare workplace has state-of-the-art equipment.
Pro Tip 3/3Service Focused
Highlights the service aspect, not just medical procedures or treatments.
This clinic is known for its exceptional healthcare services.
Pro Tip 1/3Industry Specific
Used when talking about jobs and businesses related to medical care and services.
She is studying to join the healthcare industry next year.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Context
Mentioned often in discussions about working at or managing medical facilities.
Their healthcare workplace has state-of-the-art equipment.
Pro Tip 3/3Service Focused
Highlights the service aspect, not just medical procedures or treatments.
This clinic is known for its exceptional healthcare services.
Pro Tip 1/3Industry Specific
Used when talking about jobs and businesses related to medical care and services.
She is studying to join the healthcare industry next year.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Context
Mentioned often in discussions about working at or managing medical facilities.
Their healthcare workplace has state-of-the-art equipment.
Pro Tip 3/3Service Focused
Highlights the service aspect, not just medical procedures or treatments.
This clinic is known for its exceptional healthcare services.
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Improving diagnosis in...
healthcare workers to have the power to be able to impact patient care I think that's the key element that we want to be able to do to me it's amazing that you started at improving tree up triage providing decision support to help really tired nurses not accidentally make a mistake and then all of a sudden
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Can the economy grow...
to earn their living or get healthcare, so it might be more feasible to scale down production of things deemed less necessary. But this raises other who gets to define what’s necessary? How would we resolve the inevitable disagreements? Could we really do away with entire industries?
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Eric Dishman: Take...
that shift from mainframe to personal computing is what we have to do for healthcare. We have to shift from this mainframe mentality of healthcare to a personal model of healthcare. We are obsessed with this way of thinking. When Intel does surveys all around the world and we say,
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What if our healthcare...
of pressure I just wanted a blessing I didn't want some kind of mandate but the truth is I've spent every waking minute nearly since then chasing that vision I believe that we all have a vision for healthcare in this country I believe
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
But the truth is that I had a very happy childhood, full of laughter and love, in a very close-knit family. But I also had grandfathers who died in refugee camps. My cousin Polle died because he could not get adequate healthcare.
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Bill Gates: The next...
These investments offer significant benefits beyond just being ready for the epidemic. The primary healthcare, the R&D, those things would reduce global health equity and make the world more just as well as more safe.
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How fast can a vaccine...
When a new pathogen emerges, our bodies and healthcare systems are left vulnerable. In times like these, there’s an urgent need for a vaccine to create widespread immunity with minimal loss of life.
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Bill Clinton: TED Prize...
for between five and six percent of GDP, and that the government could sustain that without depending on foreign aid after five or six years. And for those of you who understand healthcare economics
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How a Woman's Donated...
profession to the entire healthcare profession she rolled into the reception area in the center for human simulation and she said I want to be part of this very emphatically and told me about her
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What really matters at...
so that life and health and healthcare can become about making life more wonderful, rather than just less horrible. Beneficence.
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Improving diagnosis in...
healthcare workers to have the power to be able to impact patient care I think that's the key element that we want to be able to do to me it's amazing that you started at improving tree up triage providing decision support to help really tired nurses not accidentally make a mistake and then all of a sudden
Video examples
Can the economy grow...
to earn their living or get healthcare, so it might be more feasible to scale down production of things deemed less necessary. But this raises other who gets to define what’s necessary? How would we resolve the inevitable disagreements? Could we really do away with entire industries?
Video examples
Eric Dishman: Take...
that shift from mainframe to personal computing is what we have to do for healthcare. We have to shift from this mainframe mentality of healthcare to a personal model of healthcare. We are obsessed with this way of thinking. When Intel does surveys all around the world and we say,
Video examples
What if our healthcare...
of pressure I just wanted a blessing I didn't want some kind of mandate but the truth is I've spent every waking minute nearly since then chasing that vision I believe that we all have a vision for healthcare in this country I believe
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
But the truth is that I had a very happy childhood, full of laughter and love, in a very close-knit family. But I also had grandfathers who died in refugee camps. My cousin Polle died because he could not get adequate healthcare.
Video examples
Bill Gates: The next...
These investments offer significant benefits beyond just being ready for the epidemic. The primary healthcare, the R&D, those things would reduce global health equity and make the world more just as well as more safe.
Video examples
How fast can a vaccine...
When a new pathogen emerges, our bodies and healthcare systems are left vulnerable. In times like these, there’s an urgent need for a vaccine to create widespread immunity with minimal loss of life.
Video examples
Bill Clinton: TED Prize...
for between five and six percent of GDP, and that the government could sustain that without depending on foreign aid after five or six years. And for those of you who understand healthcare economics
Video examples
How a Woman's Donated...
profession to the entire healthcare profession she rolled into the reception area in the center for human simulation and she said I want to be part of this very emphatically and told me about her
Video examples
What really matters at...
so that life and health and healthcare can become about making life more wonderful, rather than just less horrible. Beneficence.
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Indian Businesswoman
Being in a field like healthcare, for me, as someone who is basically on a mission to make a global impact in terms of affordable access to healthcare, I am very, very concerned about the fact that there are a large number of people in this world who need to have some access to basic rights, whether it is in education or healthcare.
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.
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Naveen Jain
Indian Businessman
I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
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Jacqueline Novogratz
American Businesswoman
This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
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Kelly Reilly
English Actress
Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.
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Patty Duke
American Actress
I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.
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Peter Diamandis
American Businessman
All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
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Paul Wolfowitz
American Public Servant
You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
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Shiv Nadar
Indian Businessman
Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.
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N. R. Narayana Murthy
Indian Businessman
Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Indian Businesswoman
Being in a field like healthcare, for me, as someone who is basically on a mission to make a global impact in terms of affordable access to healthcare, I am very, very concerned about the fact that there are a large number of people in this world who need to have some access to basic rights, whether it is in education or healthcare.
Quote examples
Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.
Quote examples
Naveen Jain
Indian Businessman
I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
Quote examples
Jacqueline Novogratz
American Businesswoman
This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
Quote examples
Kelly Reilly
English Actress
Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.
Quote examples
Patty Duke
American Actress
I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.
Quote examples
Peter Diamandis
American Businessman
All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
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Paul Wolfowitz
American Public Servant
You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
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Shiv Nadar
Indian Businessman
Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.
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N. R. Narayana Murthy
Indian Businessman
Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.
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