INDEX
Aase, Lee
Abacavir
Abbott Laboratories
Ablin, Richard
Academic-industrial complex
Academic-pharmaceutical industry ties
Access
to medical records
to personal genomics
Accountability, ranking of doctors and
Accountable care organizations (ACOs)
Acupuncture
Adalimumab
ADD. See Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Adderall
Adducin
ADNI. See Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Consortium
“Adventures in Self-Surveillance, aka Extreme-Navel Gazing” (Hill)
Advertising
medical procedure
prescription drug
AdvoConnection
AEDs. See Automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
Affectiva
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
Aggrastat
Aging in place, wireless sensors and
Airstrip CC/Airstrip Ob
AliveCor
ALK gene
ALS Therapy Development Foundation
Alternative medicine
Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging
Initiative (ADNI) Consortium
Alzheimer’s disease
AMD. See Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Amyvid
Anand, Geeta
Anderson, Chris
Anectine (succinylcholine)
Angell, Marcia
Angiography, coronary and CT
Angrist, Misha
Apoε
Applications (apps)
appointment-scheduling
blood glucose monitoring
cloud computing
Epocrates app
Genome Browser
relying on nanosensors to detect molecular signatures
Skin Scan
for smart phones
Applied Biosystems sequencing machine
Aranesp/Nespo (darbepoetin alfa)
Archon X prize
Arrhythmias
Aspirin, Plavix vs.
Asthma
Asthmapolis program
AstraZeneca
Atala, Anthony
Atrial fibrillation
Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Attention span, effect of digital technology on
Aurora
Autism
Autoimmune diseases
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
Avastin (bevacizumab)
Azathioprine
Baclofen
Bacteroides
Baidu
Banet, Matt
Batista, Randas
Batista procedure
Baychol (ceruvastatin)
Beijing Genomics Institute
Being Digital (Negroponte)
Bevacizumab
Bidirectional video link, telemedicine and
Bilton, Nick
Biofeedback
Biologics
Biomarkers
Biosensors. See also Wireless sensors
Bladders, synthetic
Block substitution
Blood glucose monitoring
Blood pressure telemonitoring
Blood tests, for Alzheimer’s disease
Blood vessels, printing
Blue Button
Blumenthal, David
Bodybugg
Bodymedia
Boramanand, Nicole
Bradley, Ed
BRAF gene mutation
Brain, effects of digital stimulation on
Brain cancer
Brain imaging
Brain mapping
Brain pacemaker
Brain training/brain calisthenics/brain gyms
Brain waves, monitoring
Braunwald, Eugene
Breast cancer
Brin, Sergey
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Brown, Sherrod
Bush, Jonathan
Byers, Brook
Cameras, digital
Camptosar (irinotecan)
Cancer
combining wireless sensors and genomics to prevent/detect
exome sequencing and
imaging of
individualizing drug treatment for
mass screening for
online health information on
radiation exposure and risk of
targeted drug discovery and
whole-genome sequencing and
Cancer breathalyzer
CAPRIE trial
Carbamazepine
CardioNet
Carey, John
Carr, Nicholas
Cars, wireless sensors in
Casalino, Lawrence
Casey, Don
Castlight Health
CCSVI. See Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
Celebrex
Celera Genomics
Cell phones
as biosensors
invention of, increase in use of
See also iPhone; Smart phones
CellSearch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cerezyme
Cerner EHR system
Ceruvastatin
Cetuximab
CFTR gene mutation
CGM. See Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome
Checklist Manifesto, The (Gawande)
Children’s National Medical Center–153
Chip tattoo
Cholinergic drugs
Chretien, Katherine
Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
Chronic diseases
preventing
sensors to help manage
Chronic myelogenous leukemia
Chronic obstructive lung disease
Church, George
Cialis
Ciba-Geigy
Cigna
Circulating tumor cells
Cisplatin, cisplatinum
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)
Clinical trials
CAPRIE
conditional approval and
GUSTO
IMPROVE-IT
n-of-1
placebo trials
randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled
registration of
seeding trials
STITCH
Women’s Health Initiative
Clinton, Bill
Clopidogrel
Close, Glenn
Clostridium difficile
Cloud computing
CME (continuing medical education)
CNVs. See Copy number variations (CNVs)
Cochrane Collaborative
Cogito
CogniFit
Collaboration
among pharmaceutical companies
digital technology and
human genome project and
Collen, Morris
Collins, Francis
Colon cancer
Colonoscopy
Compensation, doctor
Complement factor H
Complete Genomics
Compliance
Computing power
Concierge medical program
Conditional approval of drug
Congestive heart failure
Connectivity, digital revolution and constant
Connectome
Consumer health advocacy organizations
Consumer (patient) empowerment
access to health information
choosing doctors and
direct-to-consumer advertising and
do-it-yourself medicine
individualized medicine
medical procedures and
See also under Patient
Consumers Union
Consumnivores
Consumption, customized
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Convergence of technological advances
Cooke, Molly
Cooper, Marty
Coptis Purge Fire
Copy number variations (CNVs)
Coronary angiography
Coronary artery disease
Cost
of biologics
of electronic health records/health information technology
of individualized medicine
of medical errors
of personal genomics
of prescription medicines
“Cost Conundrum, The” (Gawande)
Counsyl
Cox-2 inhibitors
CPAP. See Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Creative destruction of medicine
Crestor
Crizotinib
Crohn’s disease
Crossing the Quality Chasm
Crowdsourcing health-related information
“Cryptogenic,”
CT (computed tomography) angiography
CT (computed tomography) scans
CTIA meeting
Culturomics project
Cure, The (Anand)
CVS
Cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors
CYP2C9
CYP2C19
CYP4F2
Cystic fibrosis
Dacarbazine
DADD. See Digitally induced ADD (DADD)
Daiichi
Data
democratized
physiologic
See also Human data capture
Data-driven, participatory culture, cultivating
Data explosion/flooding
Davies, Kevin
Da Vinci robot system
DBS. See Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
dbSNP database
“Decade Later, Gene Map Yields Few New Cures, A” (Wade)
DeCode Genetics
DeCode Me
Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
Deep sequence
Defibrillators
Deletions
Democratization
of data
of DNA
of medicine
Demographics, physician
Dendreon
Denys, Bart
Depersonalization of medicine
Depression
Diabetes
type 1,
type 2,
Diabetic Connect
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
Digerati
Digital divide, digital medicine and
Digital dystopia
Digital imaging. See also Imaging
Digital innovation
Digital landscape
cloud computing
collaboration
constant connectivity
convergence of technological advances
crowdsourcing
customized consumption
data-driven culture
data explosion
super-convergence
Digitally induced ADD (DADD)
Digital marketing and sales
Digital medicine
digital divide and
doctor-patient relationship and
ethical concerns
privacy and security concerns
See also Digitization of humans; Human data capture
Digital ultrasound scanner
Digitization of humans
activism and
demise of hospitals and clinics and
democratized data, socialized medicine and
differentiating from real human
digital dystopia
mind control and
n of 1 to n of billions
prevention and precision
Digitizing breath
DirectLife
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising
Disease
finding doctor to treat specific
personal genomics and susceptibility to
whole-genome sequencing and
Disease-in-a-dish process, determining drug responsiveness using
Disease mongering
DNA
democratization of
germ-line
methylation of side chains
somatic
tumor
DNA sequencing. See also Whole–genome sequencing (WGS)
DNA transistors
“Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?” (Carey)
“Doctor of the Future, The,”
Doctor-patient relationship, digital medicine and
Doctors
adapting to digital landscape
demographics of
education of
email use and
finding and choosing
future models for
ranking of
shortage of
social networking and
telemedicine and
virtual practices
Doctor visits
reduction in
virtual
Do-it-yourself medicine
Donepezil
Doxorubicin
Dr. Reddy
Drawing the Map of Life (McElheny)
Drazen, Jeffrey
Driver mutations
Drug design
Drug development
clinical trials and
collaborative approach to
drug side effects and
ethics of placebo trials
genomics and
guaranteed-to-succeed model of
PLX4032 example
transparency and
Drug discovery, drug development vs.
Drugs
advertising prescription
for Alzheimer’s disease
cost of prescription
dosages
genome-wide association studies of
interactions
postmarketing surveillance of
side effects
DTC. See Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising
Dyson, Esther
Dystonia
Early pregnancy tests (EPTs)
Echinacea
Ecker, Joseph
Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency (Cooke)
Efudex (5-flourouracil)
EHR. See Electronic health record (EHR)
Electrocardiogram
Electronic health record (EHR)
challenges with
data in future
future of
increasing use of
model EHR health systems
open notes to patients
privacy and
reduction of medical errors and
security and
See also Health information technology (HIT)
Electronic skin
Eli Lilly
Elliott, Carl
EMA. See European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Email
Emanuel, Ezekiel
Emergency Medicine Scribe Systems
Eminence-based medicine
Enbrel (etanercept)
ENCODE project
Enterotypes
Environmental exposures
Environmental Working Group
Eon
Epic EHR system
Epigenomics
Epilepsy
Epistasis
Epocrates app
Epoetin alfa
EPTs. See Early pregnancy tests (EPTs)
Erbitux (cetuximab)
e-readers
Erectile dysfunction drugs
“Essential,”
Etanercept
European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Every Patient’s Advocate website
Evidence-based medicine
CAPRIE trial
Lipitor example and
observational studies
t-PA example and
Exome
Exome sequencing
Experts, medical
Exposome
Extormity
Extraordinary Measures (film)
Eye, synthetic
Ezetimibe
Facebook
doctors and
drug ads on
health information via
NewsFeed
Facebook Effect, The (Kilpatrick)
Facetime
“Failed Promise of Genomics, The” (Ridley)
Familial dysautonomia
FCC. See Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
FDA. See Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA Modernization Act
Fear, of personal genomics
Fecal material, detection of colon cancer and
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
“Feedback Loop, The” (Goetz)
Fen-phen
Fetal genomic sequencing
Fishman, Mark
Fitbit
Flaherty, Keith
Flexner, Abraham
5-Flourouracil
Flucloxacillin
Fluoridation of water supplies
Fluoroscopy
Folate
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Airstrip CC approval
CardioNet approval
clinical trials and
conditional approval and
continuous physiologic monitoring and
cooperation with FCC
drug approval and
ezetimibe approval
genomic self-testing and
nonregulation of herbal supplements
Plavix approval
public health electronic monitoring and
reliance on life industry user fees
reports of health information technology problems
sunscreen rules
surrogate end points and
t-PA approval
Vioxx scandal and
wireless sensors and
Ford Motor Company
Fort Miley VA Hospital
454 Life Sciences platform
Fox, Michael J.
Franzen, Jonathan
Functional MRI
Functional variants
Fusion genes
Future Opportunities to Leverage the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Galantamine
Gaucher’s disease
Gawande, Atul
G551D mutation
Gefitinib
GE (General Electric)
Gelernter, David
Gene expression profiling
Genentech
Gene peeks
General Motors
Generic drugs
Genetic diseases, genomics and
Genetics Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
Genome, Watson
$1000 Genome, The (Davies)
Genome Browser
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
evaluation of significance
missing disease risks and
pharmacogenomics and
Genome-wide scans
Genome Wowser
Genomic data, incorporating in personal health record
Genomics
amping up sequencing
cancer genomics
drug development and
epigenomics
exome sequencing
human genome sequence
introduction to
metabolomics
microbiome
molecular diagnosis
personal “consumer,”
pharmacogenomics
social networking and
transcriptomics
Volker case
whole-genome sequencing (see Whole-genome sequencing)
wireless
wireless sensors and
Genomics and Personalized Medicine (course)
Genotyping and sequencing, handheld device for
Genzyme
Germ-line DNA
Gilead Sciences
Gilmartin, Raymond
GINA. See Genetics Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
Gingko
Gladstone Institute
Gladwell, Malcolm
Glaucoma
Glaxo
Glaxo Smith Kline
Gleevac
Glioblastoma
Glow Caps
Glucosamine
Glycome
Glycosalated hemoglobin
GME (graduate medical education)
Goetz, Thomas
Google
Google+
“Google Effect,”
Google Health
Google Scholar
Google’s Flu Trends
Government Accountability Office, on genomic self-testing
Government regulation
of consumer genomics companies
democratization of data and
digital revolution and
of life science industry
Government websites, health information
Graham, David
“Great Prostate Mistake, The” (Ablin)
GreenGoose
Groupon
GSK (Glaxo)
Guaranteed-to-succeed model of drug development
Guided imagery
Gulcher, Jeff
GUSTO trial
Gutenberg Galaxy, the: The Making of Typographic Man (McLuhan)
Gutierrez, Alberto
GWAS. See Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
Haick, Hossam
Hall, Stephen
Hamlet’s BlackBerry (Powers)
Handheld genotyping and sequencing device
Haplotype
HapMap
Happy Neuron
Harmon, Amy
Harrison, Michael
Hauser, Stephen
Health and fitness, wireless sensors and
Health information, sharing via social media
Health information technology (HIT)
adoption of in United States
challenges with
impact of adopting
medical errors and
model systems
open notes and
privacy and security of
uses of
See also Electronic health record (EHR)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Health insurers
personal genomics and
ranking doctors and
HealthPresence
HealthVault
Heart attack, combining wireless sensors and genomics to prevent
Heart bypass surgery groups, ranking of
Heart disease, online health information on
Heart failure
Heart imaging
Heart rhythm monitoring, wireless
Helicos
Hello Health
Hepatitis C treatment
Herbal supplements
Herceptin (trastuzumab)
Here Is a Human Being (Angrist)
Heritability, of disease
Hexal
Heywood, Stephen
High-density lipoprotein levels, genetic variation in
High-throughput screening (HTS) systems
Hill, Kashmir
HIPAA. See Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
“Hiring Your Own Scientist to Find a Cure” (Marcus)
His Brother’s Keeper (Weiner)
HiSeq sequencers
HIT. See Health information technology (HIT)
HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act)
HLA-B*5701
H1N1 flu epidemic
Hoeschst
Holter, Norman
Holter device
Home medical testing
Homo digitus. See Digitization of humans
Homo distractus
Homophily
Hormone replacement therapy
Horton, Richard
Hospitals
cost of health information technology for
digital medicine and demise of
ranking
“How to Care for 30 Million More Patients” (Vanderveen)
HTS. See High-throughput screening (HTS) systems
Huffington Post
Human, digitization of. See Digitization of humans
Human Connectome Project
Human data capture
asthma
cancer
combining wireless sensors and genomics
genomics and drug development
heart attack
transplant rejection
type 1 diabetes
wireless genomics
Human Gastric Microbiome
Human genome
clinically annotating
interancestry differences in
results of sequencing
types of variation in
See also Genomics; Whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
Human Genome Project
Human Genome Research Institute
Human MetaGenome Consortium
Human Microbiome Project
Human papillomavirus vaccine
Human physiology
Human Protein Atlas
Human proteome
Humira
Huntington’s disease
Hyperpersonalized
Hypertension
Hypnosis
Hypothesis-free research
“Idiopathic,”
I Live in the Future (Bilton)
Illumina
Illumina HiSeq
Imaging
brain imaging
brain mapping
cancer imaging
capabilities
heart imaging
ionizing radiation technologies
pocket-size ultrasound
printing organs
Imatinib
ImClone
Imiglucerase
IMPROVE-IT trial
Imuran (azathioprine)
Indels
Individual digital advertising
Individuality
Individualized medicine
n-of-1 trials and
personal “consumer” genomics
Individualome
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)
Infectious disease outbreaks, genomics and social-network analysis of
Infliximab
Insertion-deletion variant
Insulin glargine
Interactome
Interferon beta-1a
Interferon-α
Interferonλ3
International HapMap
Internet
convergence with smart phones
growth of
impact of
as source of health information
transformation of consumption and
using to track disease outbreaks
Interoperability
Interpretability, of personal genomics
Introns
Intuitive Surgical
Inversion variant
Ioannidis, John
Ionizing radiation, imaging using . See also Radiation exposure
Ion Torrent
iPad
iPerian
iPhone. See also Smart phones
Ipilimumab
iPill
iPS. See Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)
Iressa (gefitinib)
iRhythm
Irinotecan
Jacobs, Paul
Januvia
Jarvik, Robert
Jobs, Steve
Johnson, Steven
Johnson & Johnson
Jones, Don
Kaiser Permanente
Kaushal, Mohit
Keller, Bill
Khan, Sal
Khan Academy
Khozin, Sean
Kidney, “printing,”
Kilpatrick, David
Kim, Stuart
Kinect
King Pharmaceuticals
Kleiner Perkins
KRAS mutation
Kurzweil, Ray
LabCorp
Laboratory end point
Lamas, Daniel
Language of Life, The (Collins)
Lanier, Mark
Law, Malcolm
Lazarus effect
LD. See Linkage disequilibrium (LD)
“Learning My Genome, Learning About Myself” (Harmon)
Lechleiter, John
Lee, Thomas
Lehrer, Jonah
Leukemias
chronic myelogenous
fusion genes and
targeted drug therapy for
whole-genome sequencing and
Levitra
Liaison Committee on Medical Education
“Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life, A” (Venter)
Life science industry
digital revolution and
regulation of
wikimedicine
See also Pharmaceutical industry
Lifestyle changes, personal genomics and
Life Technologies
Life Watch
Lilly
Linkage disequilibrium (LD)
Linux
Lipitor
Lipome
Lithium
Litter-ature
LivingSocial
Lohr, Steve
Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, The (Anderson)
Losartan
Loss-of-function allele
Lumiracoxib
Lung cancer
non-small-cell
Lymphomas
Macrowikinomics (Tapscott & Williams)
Magnetic resonance elastography
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Malaria, biosensing
Malpractice
electronic health records and
email and physicians and
Mammograms
Manhattan plots
Manolio, Terry
Marcus, Amy Dockser
Markle Foundation
Marra, Marco
Masella, Luke
Massively parallel
Massively parallel sequencing machines
Mass medicalization
Mass screening
Mass screenings
Mayo Clinic
McElheny, Victor
McLaughlin, Thomas
McLuhan, Marshall
MDVIP concierge program
Medarex
Medco
MedHelp
Medical community, as source of health and medical information
Medical devices, postmarketing surveillance of
Medical education
Medical Education in the United States and Canada
Medical errors, electronic health records and
Medical jargon, interpretation of
Medical procedures
advertising
inappropriate use/overuse of
Medical sequencing
Medication compliance, wireless monitoring of
Medication errors
Medicine
creative destruction of
democratization of
digital (see Digital medicine)
distrust of conventional
do-it-yourself
eminence-based
evidence-based (see Evidence-based medicine)
population vs. individual orientation in
socialized
Medimmune
Medley
MedNetworks
Medtronic
Melanoma
BRAF gene and
imaging
Ipilimumab for
PLX4032 vs. dacarbazine and
Skin Scan app
Mendelian inheritance
6-Mercaptopurine
Merck
Merck-Schering Plough
Merrick, Joseph
Metabolome
Metabolomics
MetaGUT project
Metformin
Methotrexate
Methylation of side chains
Methylome
Mevacor
mHealth unit
miCoach Pacer
Microbiome
MicroObes
Millennium
Miller syndrome
Mind control, digital medicine and
Mirror World
Mirror Worlds (Gelernter)
Missing heritability
Mobile diagnostics
Molecular diagnostics
Molecular screening libraries
Monoclonal antibodies
Mood disorders, wireless monitoring of
Moore, Gordon
Moore’s law
Mossberg, Walt
MRI. See Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Mullan, Fitzhugh
Multiple myeloma
Multiple sclerosis
Music industry, Internet transformation of
Mutations
cancer genomics and
driver
orthologous
V600E
Myca Health
“My Genome, My Self” (Pinker)
My Nurse First
MySpace
Nanosensors
cancer detection using
heart attack detection using
National Institutes of Health
National Lung Screening Trial (NSLT)
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Navigenics
Navigenics scan
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)
Negroponte, Nicholas
Neonatal hypoglycemia
Netflix
Netizen
Networks, digitizing humans and. See also Social media
Neulasta (pegfilgrastim)
Neutrogena
Nike+ shoe
Nintendo Brain Age
NIRS. See Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)
NNT (numbers needed to treat)
n-of-1 trials
Non-small-cell lung cancer
Nosek, Luke
Nosocomial infections
Novartis
NSLT. See National Lung Screening Trial (NSLT)
Nuclear bone scans
Nuclear perfusion scans
Null hypothesis, medical evidence refuting
Obama, Barack
Obesity
Observational studies
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
OCW. See OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Office visits
impact of use of electronic health records on
virtual
Ofri, Danielle
Ogden Syndrome
Olser, William
Omega-3 supplements
Omics
Oncogene
1000 Genomes project
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database
Open access movement
OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Open-heart surgery, ranking hospitals that perform
Open Learning Initiative
Open notes
Open platforms
“Order of Things, The” (Gladwell)
Organovo
Organs, printing
Ornish, Dean
Orszag, Peter
Orthologous mutations
Orwell, George
Osborne, Ozzy
Ovarian cancer
Oz, Mehmet
Pacific Biosciences
Paired sequencing
Palestrant, Daniel
Pancreatic cancer
PARE (personalized analysis of rearranged ends)
Parkinson, Jay
Parkinson’s disease
Partners HealthCare
Passenger mutations
Pathway Genomics
Patient activism
Patient advocacy groups
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PatientsLikeMe
Patients Not Patents
Peer-to-peer medical communities, online
Pegfilgrastim
PEG-interferon
PEG-interferon-α
Personal computers
Personal “consumer” genomics
concerns regarding
disease susceptibility and
Personal emergency response system
Personal Genome Project
Personal health record (PHR). See also Electronic health record (EHR)
PET. See Positron emission tomography (PET)
Pfizer
Pharmaceutical industry
consolidation in
direct-to-consumer marketing
examples of new model
guaranteed-to-succeed model
intercompany partnerships/joint ventures
marketing, tracking and sales
new model for
partnering with academia and start-ups
wikimedicine and
Pharmacogenic panels
Pharmacogenomics
actionable information
drug development and
personal genomics and
prevention and
Phase-3 clinical trials
Phenylketonuria
PHR. See Personal health record (PHR)
PhysAssist
Physician Payment Sunshine Act
Physicians. See under Doctor
Physiologic data
Physiologic individuality
Physiology, human. See also Wireless sensors
PIB. See Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) PET imaging
PIK3CA gene mutation
Pimplikar, Sanjay
Pinker, Steven
Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) PET imaging
Placebo trials
Plavix (clopidogrel)
Plexxicon
PLX4032
Pneumococcal vaccines
Pogue, David
Polypill
Pompe disease
Population-based medicine
CAPRIE trial (Plavix)
direct-to-consumer advertising and
Lipitor example
observational studies
polypill
screenings and
t-PA example
Vitamin E example
Zetia and Vytorin examples
Positron emission tomography (PET)
Posit Science
Powell, Cameron
Powers, William
Pravachol
Prescription avoidance
Prevention, of disease
Prevoella
Prexige
Printing organs
Privacy concerns
digital medicine and
electronic health record and
personal genomics and
Proctor and Gamble
Projection radiography
Promoters
Pronovost, Peter
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer vaccine
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test
Protein kinase genes
Proteome
Proteomics
Proteus Biomedical
Proteus syndrome
Provenge
PSA. See Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test
Psoriatic arthritis
Public Citizen
Public health
electronic monitoring of
genomics and social-network analysis and
PubMed
P-value of a finding
P2Y12
Q-sensor
Quake, Stephen
Qualcomm
Quality metrics
Quantified Self movement
Quest Diagnostics
Radiation exposure
documenting in personal health record
medical imaging and
screening tests and
RAF gene
Raman spectroscopy
Ranbaxy
RAND Corporation
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials
Rational design model
Referrals
Regulation, of personal genomics
Reicin, Alice
Reid, Clifford
Remicade (infliximab)
Remodeling
Replicability
ResearchGATE
RET gene
Retinyl palmitate
Rett syndrome
“Revolution Postponed” (Hall)
Rezai, Ali
Rezulin
Rhapsody
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rhone Poulenc
Ribavirin
Ridley, Matt
Rienhoff, Hugh
Rimonabant
Risk
from ionizing radiation imaging
whole-genome sequencing and disease
Ritalin
Rituximab
Rivistigmine
RNA
RNA-Seq
Roadmap Epigenome Project
Robots, used in surgery
Roche
Rosuvastatin
Royal Jelly
Ruminococcus
RunKeeper
Russert, Tim
RVUs (relative value units)
Ryan, Brandon
Sabine, Charles
Saint-John’s-wort
Sandoz
Sands, Daniel
Sanofi
Sanofi-Aventis
Sasahara, Arthur
Satoris
Sawyers, Charles
Schadt, Eric
Schering-Plough
Schizophrenia
Schmidt, Eric
Schumpeter, Joseph
Schwan, Severin
Scorecard medicine
Screening tests
Scribes
Scripps Genomic Health Initiative
Scripps Health
Scripps Translational Science Institute
Searle
Second opinions
Security concerns
digital medicine and
electronic health record and
personal genomics and
Seeding trials
Sega Brain Assist
Selenium
Self-testing
Semiconductor technology, human genome sequencing and
Sempra
Septin
Serious Games
Sermo
Sexually transmitted diseases, biosensing
Shallows, The (Carr)
SIM card, as biosensor
Singh, Simon
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variants
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
Singularity
60 Minutes (television program)
Skin cancer. See also Melanoma
Skin Scan app
Skype
Sleep apnea
Sleep monitoring
Small-cell lung cancer
Smart cane
Smart phones
apps relying on nanosensors to detect molecular signature
convergence of Internet and
heart rhythm monitoring and
wireless sensors and
See also iPhone
Smart systems
Smith, Joseph
SmithKline
SNP. See under Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
SNPedia website
Socialized medicine
Social media
creation of online
crowdsourcing and
doctors and
drug marketing and
effect of
genomics and
health information sharing via
health sites
shaping medical practice
See also Facebook; Twitter
Society of Actuaries
Software, brain training
SOLiD
SOLiD sequencer
Somatic DNA
So Much So Fast (film)
Sonosite laptop ultrasound
Sorafenib
Sotera wrist transceiver sensor
Soul Hypothesis, The (Baker & Goetz)
SPF. See Sun protection factor (SPF)
Spinal muscular atrophy
Srivastava, Deepak
Starfield, Barbara
Statins
Stenting/stents
Stethoscope
Stewart, Martha
STITCH trial
Streptokinase
Structural MRI
Succinylcholine
Sudden infant death syndrome
Sulfonylurea
Sun protection factor (SPF)
Sunscreens
Super-convergence
“Super-spreaders,”
Supplements
Surgical use of robots
Surrogate end points
Synthetic organs
Systems biology
Takeda
Tamoxifen
Tapscott, Don
Tasigna
Tay-Sachs disease
Technicon Israel Institute
Technological innovations
convergence of
ranking
TEDMED
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference
Tegretol (carbamazepine)
Telemedicine
Temozolomide (Temodar)
10/10 rule
Tepluzimab
Testosterone supplements
Theranostics
Thyroid cancer
Tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA)
Tissues, drug development and synthetic
To Err Is Human
TOMM40
Topol, Susan
Torrent
Torrey, Trisha
Toumazou, Chris
Toxic epidermal necrolysis
Toyota
t-PA. See Tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA)
Trachea, printing organs and synthetic
Trait-o-matic
Transcriptome
Transcriptomics
Transparency, in drug development process
Transplant rejection, monitoring
Trastuzumab
Trick or Treatment? (Singh)
Tricorder X-Prize for mobile diagnostics
“Truth Wears Off, The” (Lehrer)
Tumor necrosis factor
Tumor necrosis factor blockers
Twain, Mark
20/20 (television program)
23andMe
Twins, epigenomics and
Twitter
Type 1 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes
Ultrasound
Ultraviolent A (UVA)
UnitedHealth
United States, adoption of electronic medical record keeping in
Unstable angina
Urogenital Microbiome Consortium
U.S. News & World Report (magazine) hospital rankings
Utility, of personal genomics
Uveal melanomas
Vaccines
Vagelos, Roy
Valentine, Shelley
Vanderveen, Pete
Variable number tandem repeats (VNTR)
Vectibix
Vein opening procedure
Velcade model
V600E mutation
Venter, Craig
Ventricular arrhythmias
Venuti, Michael
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vest, Charles
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Viagra
Videoconferencing
ViiV Healthcare
Vioxx
Virtualization of real world
Virtual medical practice
Virtual office visits (v-visits)
Vital signs, wireless monitoring of
Vitamin B12
Vitamin D,
Vitamin E
Vitamins
VNTR. See Variable number tandem repeats (VNTR)
Volker, Nicholas
Von Hoff, Daniel D.
Vscan
Vytorin
Wade, Nicholas
Wald, Nicholas
Walgreens
Warfarin
Warner Lambert
Waskal, Sam
Watson, James
Watson genome
Watson IBM computer
WeAre.Us
WebMD
WebMD Health Manager
“Web Squared” white paper (O’Reilly & Battelle)
Weil, Andrew
Weiner, Ben
Weiner, James
Weiner, Jonathan
West, Gary and Mary
WGS. See Whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
Where Good Ideas Come From (Johnson)
White coat hypertension
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
to diagnose and treat disease
disease risk and
explanations of diseases and
fetal
interpretation of
race to increase numbers
Whole-transcriptome sequencing
“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” (Ioannidis)
Wii
Wiki communities
Wikimedicine
n-of-1/n-of-billions idea and
Wikinomics (Tapscott & Williams)
Wikipedia
WikiWatson
Williams, Anthony
Windows Live
Winner’s curse
Wireless accelerometers
Wireless genomics
Wireless health institute
Wirelessly tagged pills, to track drugs
Wireless sensors
aging in place and
asthma attacks and
in cars
challenges of wireless medicine
continuous glucose monitoring and
fetal whole genome sequencing and
genomics and
heart rhythm monitoring and
increase in
late onset diseases and
medication compliance and
mobile phone laboratory
mood disorders and
office visit of the future and
physiological data gathering and
sleep apnea and
vital signs and
v-visits and
Wise, Michael
Withings WiFi body scale
Wojcicki, Anne
Women’s Health Initiative trial
Woodcock, Janet
Wozniak, Steve
Wyeth
Ximelagatran
X-rays
Yervoy
Yock, Paul
YouTube
Zamboni, Paolo
Zentiva
Zeo
Zetia
Ziagen (abacavir)
Zinfandel
ZocDoc
Zocor
ZQ
Zuckerberg, Mark