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Healthcare
Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation (HJDSI) is a quarterly Elsevier peer-reviewed journal founded in Amsterdam in 2013, covering health care delivery innovation, indexed in MEDLINE since 2015, and an official AcademyHealth journal.
Healthcare Disparities
Healthcare disparities, also called health care inequalities, are differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services between population groups, tracked by MeSH since 2008, AHRQ reports since 2003, and persisting in every U.S. state.
Healthcare Financial Management Association
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is the shared name of professional bodies for healthcare finance staff: a US 501(c)(6) founded 1946 with 150,000+ members, a UK charity founded 1950 with 28,000+ members, and an Australian body incorporated 1992.
Healthcare in Brazil
Healthcare in Brazil centers on SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde), a tax-funded universal system created by the 1988 Constitution, free at point of care, decentralized across three government levels, alongside private insurance covering about 25% of the population.
Healthcare in Canada
Canada's universal, tax-funded Medicare system: 13 provincial plans under the 1984 Canada Health Act, $52.1B federal transfer, long specialist waits, and new dental care and pharmacare programs.
Healthcare in China
Healthcare in China (医疗卫生): mixed public-private system run by the National Health Commission and National Healthcare Security Administration; 1.1 million institutions, 16.12 million workers, 10.65 billion visits in 2025, spending 6.7% of GDP, life expectancy 79.25 years.
Healthcare in Germany
Healthcare in Germany, also called the German health care system, provides universal coverage through compulsory statutory health insurance, first introduced under Otto von Bismarck in 1883.
Healthcare in India
Healthcare in India: mixed public-private system, 3.83% of GDP health spending (2021-22), Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY ₹5 lakh coverage, 1.84 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, 863 million digital health IDs, out-of-pocket spending down to 39.4%.
Healthcare in Nigeria
Healthcare in Nigeria: pluralistic public-private system, decentralized across federal, state, and local government, funded mostly by out-of-pocket payments (76%), with NHIA mandatory insurance since 2022, low spending, and workforce shortages.
Healthcare in South Africa
Healthcare in South Africa: a two-tier public–private system serving about 84% of people publicly, spending 8.27% of GDP, carrying the world's largest HIV population, and reforming financing through the National Health Insurance Act phased in 2024–2028.
Healthcare industry
The healthcare industry, also known as the medical industry or health sector, spans hospitals, insurers, drug makers, and pharmacies; the US spent $5.3 trillion on health in 2024.
Healthcare Near Miss
Healthcare near miss (close call): a patient safety event that presented a risk but caused no patient harm. WHO classifies incidents as near miss, no harm, or harmful; near misses are up to 300 times more common than adverse events but underreported.
HealthCare.com
HealthCare.com is an American insurtech company, founded in 2014 and based in New York City and Miami, that matches consumers with health and pharmacy plans using machine learning.
Healthians
Healthians is an Indian at-home diagnostics company founded by Deepak Sahni in 2014 that collects samples at customers' homes and runs its own NABL- and CAP-accredited labs.
Healthier Capital
Healthier Capital is a Menlo Park, California health-tech venture capital firm founded by Amir Dan Rubin, former CEO of Amazon | One Medical, in 2023.
HealthKart
HealthKart is an India-based nutrition company founded in 2011 by Prashant Tandon and Sameer Maheshwari, selling supplement brands including MuscleBlaze, HKVitals, and Gritzo through stores and online.
Healthmap Solutions
Healthmap Solutions is a Tampa, Florida-based kidney population health management company founded in 2013, which raised $100 million in 2023 and acquired Carium in 2025.
Healthquest Partners
Healthquest Partners, or HealthQuest Capital, is a California growth equity firm founded by Dr. Garheng Kong. It focuses on commercial-stage healthcare companies, including medical devices and diagnostics.
Healthquest Tactical
HealthQuest Tactical, formally HealthQuest Tactical Opportunities Fund, L.P., is a healthcare investment fund raised by California venture firm HealthQuest Capital, which reported $300 million sold in 2023.
HealthVerity
HealthVerity is a Philadelphia healthcare data company founded in 2014 by Andrew Kress and Andrew Goldberg, which links de-identified patient records and acquired Symphony Health in 2026.
Healthy diet
Healthy diet: eating pattern protecting against malnutrition and noncommunicable diseases; WHO principles of adequacy, balance, moderation, diversity; quantitative limits on sugars, fats, salt; DASH and Mediterranean top-rated patterns.
HEALTHY trial
HEALTHY trial (NCT00458029): NIDDK-funded US cluster-randomized primary prevention trial in 42 middle schools, 7 sites, testing a 4-component school intervention against type 2 diabetes risk factors; primary obesity outcome null, secondary adiposity outcomes improved.
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-296, S. 3307), US law signed December 13, 2010 reauthorizing child nutrition and WIC programs; set stricter school meal standards, created the Community Eligibility Provision, and its milk rules were reversed by the 2026 Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.
Healx
Healx is a Cambridge, UK biotechnology company founded in 2014 by Tim Guilliams and David Brown, using its Healnet AI platform to redevelop medicines for rare diseases, with about $110 million raised.
Healy device
The Healy is a palm-sized wearable microcurrent device sold by Healy World, a German direct-selling company, and cleared by the FDA in 2019 for temporary pain relief.
Heaney (Mercurian crater)
Heaney, a 125 km IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury at 33.77°S, 237.71°W, named for Irish poet Seamus Heaney in 2017; its volcanic plains floor hosts a rare candidate volcano, CV1.
Heap (data structure)
A heap is a tree-based data structure satisfying the heap property, so the smallest or largest element sits at the root; the binary heap underlies priority queues and heapsort.
Heap leaching
Heap leaching is a hydrometallurgical extraction method in which crushed ore is stacked on a lined pad and irrigated with a solution that dissolves the metal.
Heapsort
Heapsort is a comparison-based sorting algorithm that arranges the input as a binary heap and repeatedly extracts the largest element, sorting in place in O(n log n) worst-case time.
Hear Me
Hear Me (聽說) is a 2009 Taiwanese romantic comedy-drama by director Cheng Fen-fen, starring Eddie Peng, Ivy Chen, and Michelle Chen. Set around the 2009 Taipei Deaflympics, it was Taiwan's top-grossing domestic film of 2009 and was remade in Korea in 2024.