History and Trends

2. Process of heating foods or drinks to kill harmful bacteria.
5. Care approach that treats the whole body, mind, and spirit.
8. Digital health record that stores and shares patient information.
9. Medicine developed in the 20th century to help treat diabetes.
10. Period known as the rebirth of the science of medicine.
11. Founder of the American Red Cross.
13. that provides disaster relief, emergency help, food, and medical support.
15. Medical or therapy services provided in a patient’s home.
19. Treatments that help prevent disease by preparing the immune system.
20. Roman structures that carried clean water into cities to improve public health.
21. Study of all the genes in the human genome.

1. First female physician in the United States.
3. Chinese medicine practice that uses thin needles placed in specific areas of the body.
4. Founder of modern nursing who improved hospital cleanliness and used data to save lives.
6. Care given without admitting the patient to a hospital.
7. Efforts to control rising health care costs while getting the most benefit.
12. Father of Medicine who helped move medicine away from superstition and toward careful observation and science.
14. Digital version of a patient’s medical record from one provider.
16. Early pharmacists who made, prescribed, and sold medications.
17. Use of video, audio, and computer systems to provide health care from a distance.
18. Eyeglasses invented by Benjamin Franklin that help people see both near and far.