Glossary
Terms used across technology and healthcare
Plain definitions of words that appear throughout RohitRohit.com, each linked to the page or essay where the idea is discussed in more depth.
23 terms
Technology
- Agentic AI
- AI systems that work towards a goal over several steps: planning, calling tools such as search or databases, checking results and deciding what to do next. Because agents act rather than only answer, they need defined limits, logging and human approval for consequential actions. Read more
- AI agent
- A software component built around an AI model that can take actions, such as retrieving information, filling a form or sending a draft for approval, in pursuit of a task. Read more
- Generative AI
- AI models that produce new text, images, code or audio based on patterns learned from large datasets. Outputs can be fluent and still wrong, so important uses need verification. Read more
- Retrieval
- Supplying an AI model with relevant documents from a trusted source at the moment of a question, so answers can be grounded in, and traced back to, that source. Read more
- Intelligent automation
- Automation that combines rules and workflows with AI capabilities such as reading documents or classifying requests, typically with people handling exceptions. Read more
- Human in the loop
- A design in which a person reviews, approves or corrects the output of an automated or AI system before it takes effect. Read more
- Digital transformation
- Changing how an organisation works by redesigning processes and adopting digital tools that support the new way of working. Read more
- OSS/BSS
- Operations Support Systems and Business Support Systems: the software telecom operators use to run their networks, rate usage, bill customers, manage fraud and reconcile accounts. Read more
- Mediation
- In telecom, the collection, validation and conversion of raw usage records from network equipment into a form billing systems can process. Read more
- Reconciliation
- Comparing records from two or more systems that should agree, and investigating the differences. Read more
- Backpropagation
- The algorithm used to train neural networks by measuring prediction error and adjusting internal weights to reduce it, working backwards through the network's layers. Read more
Healthcare
- Homoeopathy
- A system of medicine developed by Samuel Hahnemann, recognised and regulated in India, in which medicines are selected according to the individual characteristics of the patient as well as the disease. Read more
- BHMS
- Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery, the undergraduate medical degree in homoeopathy in India. It combines academic years with a compulsory clinical internship. Read more
- Individualisation
- Understanding and managing each patient according to how their illness presents in them, rather than by diagnosis alone. Read more
- Case taking
- The structured process of recording a patient's complaints, history, general state, emotional life and circumstances during a consultation. Read more
- Materia medica
- Reference works describing the effects and characteristic features associated with individual medicines. Read more
- Repertory
- An index that connects symptoms, organised as rubrics, to the medicines associated with them. It helps practitioners search materia medica systematically. Read more
- Clinical internship
- The supervised period of clinical training that follows the academic years of a medical degree, during which the intern works with patients under qualified supervision. Read more
- Preventive healthcare
- Actions that reduce the risk of illness or catch it early, including healthy routines, vaccination and appropriate screening. Read more
Convergence
- Clinical decision support
- Tools that give clinicians relevant information at the point of care, such as interaction alerts, reminders or summaries, while the decision remains with the clinician. Read more
- Human-centred AI
- AI designed around the needs, abilities and responsibilities of the people who use it and are affected by it, with transparency and easy human override. Read more
- Alert fatigue
- The tendency of clinicians to ignore warnings when a system produces too many alerts that are irrelevant or low value. Read more
- Clinical knowledge system
- A structured, searchable body of medical knowledge designed to be used during clinical work, with sources that can be checked. Read more
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