Vocabulary
The creation of large repositories of human DNA.
What is bio-banking?
Creating the ability to store and rapidly analyze a patient’s genome in its entirety.
What is a micro-array biochip?
Every person has a unique variation of the human ___________.
What is genome?
Patients are more likely to adhere to their __________ _________if their patient engagement and activation level are high.
What is physical therapy ?
Another name for personalized medicine
What is precision medicine?
A recently developed technology that enables scientists to edit genes more efficiently.
What is CRISP-R?
Technology worn on a person's body to track health issues.
What are wearables? FitBit, Apple watch etc.
As with any innovation in medicine, investment and interest in personalized medicine is influenced by __________________________.
What are intellectual property rights?
Patients that achieve their desired results are more likely to stay loyal to their ____________ _________.
What is healthcare provider?
Personalized Medicine uses genomics, the environment, and personality of the patient, to design customized treatment plans for each individual patient.
What are customized treatment plans?
To identify the specific kind of medical condition or disorder someone is experiencing.
What is diagnose?
A computer system that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain that has the potential to gather vast amounts of data.
What is DeepMind?
In addition to specific treatment, personalized medicine can greatly aid the advancements of _____________________.
What is preventive care?
Personalized Medicine has caused healthcare to go from being preventative to __________________.
What is proactive?
___________ __________ can often be a predictor for certain ailments and diseases.
What is family history?
Designed for, or targeted to, a specific individual or group of individuals.
What is hyper-personalized?
A sensor on the skin that monitors heart rate variability over weeks and months.
What is a Bio-metric skin sensor?
____________________ is the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs.
What is Pharmacogenomics?
Preventative care and maintenance are ________ _________than treating chronic illnesses or diseases such as cancer.
What is less expensive?
Personalized medicine is a much more accurate predictor of how certain medications, exercises, and ____________ ________ will affect an individual patient.
What are treatment plans?
Providing unnecessary medical treatment to patients.
What is over-treatment?
The Oska Pulse device by Oska Wellness can alleviate pain levels by using its proprietary_________________________________.
What is Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF)?
The ___________________________was passed in an effort to minimize the fear of patients participating in genetic research by ensuring that their genetic information will not be misused by employers or insurers.
What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) ?
This change to personalized medicine instead of the standard care model has led patients to be more involved in their healthcare treatment plan and ___________ ____________.
What is decision making?
More individualized data that allows them to make more___________ ________ about their health, their engagement with their treatment plan increases.
What are informed decisions?