| EHME | employee health maintenance examination |
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| HM | hand movements; health maintenance; heart murmur; hemifacial microsomia; Holter monitoring; home man... |
| HMC | hand-mirror cell; health maintenance cooperative; heroin, morphine, and cocaine; histocompatibility ... |
| HMDC | health maintenance and diagnostic center |
| HMO | health maintenance organization; heart minute output |
| pregnancy maintenance | Physiological mechanisms that sustain the state of pregnancy. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| health maintenance organization | A comprehensive prepaid system of health care with emphasis on the prevention and early detection of disease, and continuity of care.HMOs may be nonprofit or profit-making ventures, and along with PPOs and managed care plans have come to define the U.S. Health care scene. HMOs generally offer a package of services; however, the choice of physician is frequently limited to those working within the HMO. (05 Mar 2000) |
| health maintenance organizations | Organised systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: 1) provide care in a defined geographic area; 2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; 3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; 4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and 5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (12 Dec 1998) |