An entity is a single thing with a distinct separate existence. It can be real or abstract. In many contexts, the termentityis used to describe things or units that have no ready label or are difficult to classify under a single other word. For example, a customer relationship management (...
A“being” is something that has evolved into sentience (e.g. Origin), while an “entity” is something that is created by another entity or being (e.g. all the entities downstream from the Origin). In essence they become the same thing — sentience with a body of energy. Think of ...
What is a distributor? A distributor is an intermediary entity between a producer of a product, or manufacturer, and a downstream entity in the distribution channel orsupply chain. The downstream entity is typically a retailer orvalue-added reseller(VAR), but it can also be a wholesaler. The ...
Flibanserin theoretically improves sexual functioning by enhancing downstream release of dopamine and norepinephrine while reducing serotonin release in the brain circuits that mediate symptoms of reduced sexual interest and desire. Flibanserin, a new molecular entity for the treatment of hypoactive sexual ...
Event sourcing is an architectural pattern wherein changes to the app state are stored as a sequence of events. Used alongside event streams, event sourcing allows the streaming system to replay these events to reconstruct the state of an entity at any point in time or to drive other component...
FORSGREN:I actually have a spreadsheet. [LAUGHS] GEHRKE:OK. FORSGREN:But I don’t always follow it. So what I like to do is identify, like, what are my criteria, which is, you know, what things are important to me. GEHRKE:Yup. ...
A third-party vendor is any entity that your organization does business with. This includes suppliers, manufacturers, service providers, business partners, affiliates, brokers, distributors, resellers and agents. Vendors can be upstream (suppliers and vendors) and downstream (distributors and resellers...
security protocol or a compatible protocol. That means that any downstream entity will have to view our dependency as its own dependency, thereby creating an upstream dependency for that API. Of course, in doing so, it is also creating a downstream dependency for any system that interacts with...
Allow the upstream entity to terminate the BAA if the downstream business associate violates a material term of the BAA. Often the underlying contract is conditioned on a BAA being in place, which means you're fired. Address data lifecycle events such as amendments to PHI, requests by patients...
Identity security—An identity is an attribute or set of attributes that uniquely describe a user or entity. Often referred to as workforce or user security, this pillar centers on the use of authentication and access control policies to identify and validate users attempting to connect to the ne...