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 ?
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?
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?
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?