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...
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...
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...
Interactive (ĭn'tər-ăk'tĭv) adj. Acting or capable of acting on each other. Of or relating to a program that responds to user activity. Of, relating to, or being a form of media entertainment in which user and the medium engage in bilateral actions that influence the other. As...
Kickoff (kĭk'ôf') n. 1. A place kick in American football that starts play. 2. A beginning for a new initiative. Well, after one of those brutal overnight flights when you are constantly uncomfortable, I rolled into Orlando at 5:13 AM EST to the annual ritual called...
Conversation (kŏn'vər-sā'shən ) n. The spoken exchange of thoughts, opinions, and feelings; talk An informal discussion of a matter by representatives of governments, institutions, or organizations. Someone reminded me that I never posted my slides from the recent SCALE 6.x Conference held in Los Angeles on February...
Privileges (prĭv'ə-lĭj) n. 1. A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste. 2. The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity. Tomorrow I will be speaking at the annual SCALE conference in Los Angeles....
Overtreated (ō'vər trēt ĭd) n. The act, manner, or method of handling or dealing with someone or something. Administration or application of remedies to a patient or for a disease or injury; medicinal or surgical management; therapy The substance or remedy so applied. Over the holidays,...
Entrepreneur (ŏn'trə-prə-nûr') n. 1. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. 2. An individual who, rather than working as an employee, runs a small business and assumes all the risk and reward of a given business venture, idea,...
Reprieve (rĭ-prēv') v. To postpone or cancel the punishment of. Temporary relief, as from danger or pain I have had several people ping me to see if I would elevate a comment that I received for my "Openly Confused: Misys Seeks the Source" article into a...