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Health and Wellness Reference Center offers full-text articles on health issues from reference books and periodicals. A good resource for consumer information on alternative medicine and nutrition.
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Get an introduction to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act—or HIPAA, for short—and learn how to build a HIPAA-compliant, fully secure policy or program.
Enacted by the United States Congress in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act—or HIPAA, for short—established new rules for how healthcare providers can store, handle, manage, and disclose a patient’s health information. Even now, many years...
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In 2009, Mehmet Göker’s company MEG AG was Germany’s second-largest health insurance brokerage. His aim was to become the world’s most important finance broker. But things did not work out that way. INSURANCE MAN tells the story of Memet Göker, the absolute ruler of an insurance empire that he ran like a cult. A profound look at the modern financial and working world.
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Don't make your crucial decisions about Social Security, health insurance, or your tax strategy based on outdated information or what anyone else did. In this episode, you'll learn about the pros and cons of all your decision options. The reward for getting these decisions right can be worth thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of dollars.
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Since 1992, Bill Moyers and Frontline have been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee - one black, one white - as they spent two decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty. With poignant and revealing intimacy, Two American Families chronicles the struggles of the Neumanns and the Stanleys as they try to hold onto their homes, their jobs, their health insurance, and a future for their children....
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An hour-long documentary by Mary Lance and Ben Daitz, focusing on the libraries in the rural New Mexico communities of Abiquiu, Datil, Dixon, El Rito, Glenwood, Jemez Pueblo, and Magdalena. Rural libraries mean books, but so much more. They offer free internet access in areas that have no service. They provide GED, STEM, coding, tutoring, and after school programs. Rural libraries host community events and meetings, help folks with computer access...
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Learn about the importance and responsibility of protecting confidentiality in the workplace.
As an HR professional or manager in your company, you are privy to financial information, health insurance information, social security numbers, and other sensitive employee and customer data. What is it that needs to be kept confidential legally and what should be included when putting a company policy in place? In this course, veteran attorney Don Phin...
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This is the story of Jessica Macleod, a nurse practitioner, and four patients she cares for in their homes. With her laptop, satchel and stethoscope, Jessica makes house calls, typically seeing 8-10 patients per day, many of whom live at the outer edges of our healthcare system, unable to visit a doctor's office due to a combination of multiple chronic conditions, functional impairment, and poverty. Jessica's work often places her in the center of...
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Five capitalist democracies around the world - Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Germany - all have health care systems that provide health care for everyone. They have higher life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates, and spend less money than the U.S. for health care. At any given time, at least 45 million Americans do not have health insurance. What lessons can the U.S. learn about health care from other countries? In this video...
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Learn what it takes to survive a gap in income triggered by a layoff or career change. Get practical tips on how to prepare your finances, manage your funds between jobs, and more.
Career transitions, whether planned or unexpected, trigger a barrage of time-sensitive financial planning questions. How much money do you need to fund your bottom line? What steps can you take to maintain health insurance coverage between jobs? In this course, longtime...
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Learn how to design computer algorithms to be more ethical when making complex decisions.
Most companies have complex computer algorithms deciding who gets a bank loan, job interview, or health insurance. Do you have an ethical obligation to explain the decision-making back to your customer? How do you design systems that are free of gender or racial bias? These systems will define your organization. Yet many of these decisions aren’t happening...
11) Stealing Roses
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Walter (JOHN HEARD), a middle-aged man, down on his luck with no money, feels his back is against a wall with few options when his wife, Rose (CINDY WILLIAMS), develops throat cancer. Without adequate funds for medical treatments- too poor for health insurance, too young for Medicare and too “rich” for Medicaid- Walter resorts to drastic measures and decides to rob a bank. Walter steadily prepares for the big heist as he goes through his checklist...
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Get the info you need for extended periods of work and travel, or even fully relocating to another country.
If you are moving abroad, or work in human resources assisting those who are moving abroad, this course is packed with useful tips and advice, written and presented by former BBC foreign correspondent, Jon Devitt. Begin with some things you can do before you leave home, like determining if you need a relocation company, finding the right visa...
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More than ever before, new therapists are faced with a rapidly changing field that offers a dizzying array of theoretical approaches, licensure options, and business models. Amid these mystifying career prospects, what are the most important things a beginning therapist should know? In this video, a panel of six seasoned clinicians discuss their career paths, benefits and pitfalls of the work, successful business practices, and ways to prevent burnout....
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Money-driven medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the dark side; Enron: The smartest guys in the room) and inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money driven medicine: the real reason health care costs so much, the film goes beyond health insurance to offer...
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