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Nebraska Medicine, the Glossary

Nebraska Medicine (formerly, The Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Health System), is a private not-for-profit American healthcare company based in Omaha, Nebraska.^[1]

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1997 establishments in Nebraska
Health facilities that treated Ebola patients
Hospitals established in 1997

Adoption of electronic medical records in U.S. hospitals

The adoption of electronic medical records refers to the recent shift from paper-based medical records to electronic health records (EHRs) in hospitals.

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Ambulatory care

Ambulatory care or outpatient care is medical care provided on an outpatient basis, including diagnosis, observation, consultation, treatment, intervention, and rehabilitation services.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bellevue Medical Center (Nebraska)

Bellevue Medical Center is a hospital located in Bellevue, Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States.

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Bellevue, Nebraska

Bellevue (French for "beautiful view"; previously named Belleview) is a suburban city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States.

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One use of the concept of biocontainment is related to laboratory biosafety and pertains to microbiology laboratories in which the physical containment of pathogenic organisms or agents (bacteria, viruses, and toxins) is required, usually by isolation in environmentally and biologically secure cabinets or rooms, to prevent accidental infection of workers or release into the surrounding community during scientific research.

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Bloodless surgery

Bloodless surgery is a non-invasive surgical method developed by orthopedic surgeon, Adolf Lorenz, who was known as "the bloodless surgeon of Vienna".

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Bone marrow

Bone marrow is a semi-solid tissue found within the spongy (also known as cancellous) portions of bones.

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Burn center

A burn center, burn unit, or burns unit is a hospital specializing in the treatment of burns.

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Camp Ashland

Camp Ashland, Nebraska is an Army National Guard facility located near Ashland, Nebraska, United States, along the Platte River.

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Cancer treatment

Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation.

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Clarkson College

Clarkson College is a private college in Omaha, Nebraska focused on the health sciences.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).

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Coronary artery bypass surgery

Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage"), is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery disease (CAD), the buildup of plaques in the arteries of the heart.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Diamond Princess (ship)

Diamond Princess is a British-registered cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises.

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Douglas County, Nebraska

Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Downtown Omaha

Downtown Omaha is the central business, government and social core of the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Electronic health record

An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format.

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Emergency department

An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases

The Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases is a research institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- "belly", -énteron "intestine", and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders.

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Grand Island, Nebraska

Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, United States.

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Health care

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.

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Healthcare industry

The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care.

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Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is an American not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through the best use of information technology and management systems.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood.

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Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood, in order to replicate inside a patient and produce additional normal blood cells.

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Hip replacement

Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis.

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History of Omaha, Nebraska

The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s.

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Hospitals in Omaha, Nebraska

Hospitals in Omaha, Nebraska have been integral to the city's growth since its founding in 1857.

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Isolation ward

In hospitals and other medical facilities, an isolation ward is a separate ward used to isolate patients with infectious diseases.

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James Linder

James Linder (born 1954) is an American author, academic and businessperson, as well as an authority on university research commercialization.

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Joint Commission

The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs.

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KETV

KETV (channel 7) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with ABC.

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KGFW

KGFW (1340 AM) is an American radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format.

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KMTV-TV

KMTV-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with CBS.

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KPTM

KPTM (channel 42) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with Fox and The CW.

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KTIC (AM)

KTIC (840 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format.

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Lincoln Journal Star

The Lincoln Journal Star is an American daily newspaper that serves Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital and home of the University of Nebraska.

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Midtown Omaha

Midtown is a geographic area of Omaha, Nebraska that is a culturally, socially and economically important area of the city.

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Myocardial infarction

A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.

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National Association of Epilepsy Centers

The National Association of Epilepsy Centers is an association of Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers - academic departments of epilepsy in the United States that meets certain criteria and has certain resources available for the care of the most complicated patients with epilepsy.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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National Safety Council

The National Safety Council (NSC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public service organization promoting health and safety in the United States.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services

The Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) is a state agency of Nebraska, headquartered in Lincoln.

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Nebraska Medicine

Nebraska Medicine (formerly, The Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Health System), is a private not-for-profit American healthcare company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska Medicine and Nebraska Medicine are 1997 establishments in Nebraska, health facilities that treated Ebola patients and hospitals established in 1997.

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Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital

Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital is the Omaha, Nebraska region's first hospital dedicated to the complete care and treatment of orthopaedic patients.

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Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves.

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Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system.

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Non-profit hospital

A non-profit hospital is a hospital that does not make profits for owners of the hospital from the funds collected for patient services.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Medicine

Also known as Nebraska Medical Center.

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1997 establishments in Nebraska

Health facilities that treated Ebola patients

Hospitals established in 1997

References