Personalized Medicine (pûr'sə-nə-līz d mĕd'ĭ-sĭn) The type of sing molecular analysis to achieve optimum medical outcomes in the management of a patient’s disease or disease predisposition, Right treatment for the right patient at the right time. As I have mentioned in several of my posts, I have been working...
Millennial (mə-lĕn'-əl) adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years 2. Generation of Americans younger than 29 in 2007 with unique social, cultural, and market identity * This is a companion piece to an article called Millenial Patients that will appear in MDNG...
Quarterback (kwôr'tər-băk') n. 1. The backfield player whose position is behind the line of scrimmage and who usually calls the signals for the plays. 2. To lead or direct the operations of an enterprise. I have been reading with interest all the recent articles...
Dowry (dou'rē) n. Money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage. A sum of money required of a postulant at a convent. A natural endowment or gift; a talent. Misys PLC has offered to acquire struggling Allscripts "the leading provider of...
Long Tail (lông tāl) New business phenomenon in which low distribution and storage cost enable significant profits to be realized by selling small volumes of niche items instead of large numbers of popular items. The potential for online retailers to make more money than their...
Cloud (kloud) n. Computer term describing rich Internet applications, traditionally installed on personal computers, reconfigured to run over the Internet (or "cloud"). Cloud applications utilize massive data centers and powerful servers that host web applications and web services accessible to anyone on the world wide computer grid...
Prelude (prĕllūd') n. An introductory performance, event, or action preceding a more important one; a preliminary or preface A piece or movement that serves as an introduction to another section or composition and establishes the key, such as one that precedes a fugue, opens a suite,...
Financing (fə-năns') v. To provide or raise the funds or capital for: financed a new car. To supply funds to: financing a daughter through law school. To furnish credit to. The crisis that is American health care continues to get bad news. However, in a lame...
Therapy (thĕr'ə-pē) n. Treatment of illness or disability. Healing power or quality This is part 4 of a 4 part interview series (see previous here and here and here) in anticipation of the upcoming Health 2.0 Conference. This fourth and final interview is with Joshua Seidman,...
Ageism (ā'jĭz'əm) adj. Any process or expression of ideas in which stereotyping of and/or discrimination against people occurs by virtue of their age. Often refers to such actions directed against older people, but the term may also be employed to refer to unreasonable discrimination against anyone...