Cases
Acronym Soup
Definitions
IT
100

Used Smart Placement to reduce the utilization of facility-based post-acute care from 56% to 37%

                                                       


    

What is Radial?

100

AI 

What is artificial intelligence?

100

performs procedures through small incisions that involve a minimum of damage to healthy tissue (MIS)                                                 


    

What is minimally invasive surgery? 

100

Dispensing errors are eliminated by using

What is robots in the pharmacy?

200

a cloud-based software platform that manages chronic disease treatment plans in conjunction with their primary care providers and health coaches 

                                                       


    

                          


    


    

                            

                                                       


    

What is Twine?



                                                       


    

200

DA

What is Dickson Advanced Analytics?

                                                       


    

    

200

application of information technology to biology

What is bioinformatics?

200

connecting the dots of patients, providers, payers, policymakers, researchers and populations

What is health information technology?

300

DA is needed to help transform business, identifying segments of patients that require semi-customized treatment plans that emphasize outpatient care over expensive emergency department visits          

                                                       


    



What is Carolina's Healthcare System?



 

                                                       


    

300

CHS

What is Carolina's HealthCare System?

300

From the EY article in class 6: Being able to diagnose and treat disease based on people's genetic and molecular profiles is the equivalent of moving cancer treatment from a sledgehammer to a needle – from an undifferentiated approach based on eliminating the fastest-growing cancer cells, to a specific one that targets particular cell mutations

What the precision medicine?

300

Discipline focused on efficient use of information, using technology to improve health, health care, public health, and biomedical research, supporting a true Learning Health System

What is informatics? 

                                                       


    

400

potential for  digital data-driven form of “precision medicine”

                                                       


    

                                                       


    

                                                    


    

                                                       


    

What is Twine? 

400

RA 

What is Radial Analytics?

400

Video on adaptive design for class 6: A company that turns disabilities into superpowers    

What is Open Bionics?

400

type of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks (trainable mathematical units, organized in layers) working together to solve complex tasks                                                       


    



What is deep learning?