Digital Medical Records' Privacy a Problem Nov 20, 2009
Mauro said that kind of sharing is "quite common" in large databases of patients. The University of North Carolina breach, Ashton said, helped fuel a broader debate over medical privacy and importance of protecting of patient information, as paper files become digital data. (CBS News)
Science Fair Nov 19, 2009
Using large databases of information about the individual languages, the researchers teased out sometimes hidden similarities, allowing them to guess at connections between them. Even amongst the languages descended from the ancient linguistic dispersals into New Guinea and Australia, language structure has retained a rather strong signal of genealogical relatedness, and that extensive influx of structures from other communities is the exception in the region, says one of the authors, of the... (USA Today -- Tech)
Reasons Not to Migrate from Oracle ... Nov 16, 2009
Although many IT environments running Oracle can run fine on MySQL, those with large databases and complex architectures should think twice before attempting to leave Oracle. The first thing for IT executives to consider is what business problem is being solved. (Suite101.com)
Your DNA up for grabs Nov 14, 2009
I am reminded of a short film illustrating this kind of corporate/government sponsored technological terror and social control, where everything about us is known and linked into large databases: credit scores, health records, DNA, employment and police records, housing, purchases and income. The main, albeit fictional, example was a man who wanted to buy pizza with a credit card and was told, BY THE PIZZA STORE, that he just bought pizza from another store the day before, his health records... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The Anti-ID-Theft Bill That Isn't Nov 1, 2009
Many companies keep large databases of personal data that is useful to these fraudsters. But because the companies don't shoulder the cost of the fraud, they're not economically motivated to secure those databases very well. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Classification and biomarker identification using gene network modules and support vector machines Oct 16, 2009
Large databases of gene interaction networks provide an important resource for the analysis of genetic phenomena and for classification studies using interacting genes. We now demonstrate that an algorithm which integrates network information with recursive feature elimination based on SVM exhibits good performance and improves the biological interpretability of the results. (BioMed Central)
Sun, IBM push multicore boundaries Aug 27, 2009
Sun aims at Web servers that cost tens of thousands of dollars while IBM targets "monstrously large databases where you need a single memory image," he said. Indeed, IBM revealed it will use Power7 as a building block for the high-end supercomputer it is to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (EETimes)
Datric, Inc. Launches Line of Data Warehouse Solution Appliances Jul 21, 2009
Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed column-oriented analytic database technology that lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica Analytic Database is available as software only, as an appliance or online as a cloud computing solution. (PR Newswire)
Creative destruction at work Jul 17, 2009
Synchronizing large databases, opening channels to collaboration and managing the security of interconnected systems will remain a part of the terrain but the creation of lots of specific applications to be installed on each machine across an entire agency should not. The business of government is being pushed to the browser, not just on the PC or Mac, but iPhone, Blackberry and, of course, netbook. (FCW.com)
The Anti-ID-Theft Bill That Isn't Jul 5, 2009
Many companies keep large databases of personal data that is useful to these fraudsters. But because the companies don't shoulder the cost of the fraud, they're not economically motivated to secure those databases very well. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Everyday drugs aren't risk-free Jul 3, 2009
Dr. Wayne Ray of Vanderbilt University and colleagues looked at 48,566 patients from three large databases Tennessee's Medicaid program, Saskatchewan Health in Canada and a British database and found naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn) had better cardiovascular safety than diclofenac, ibuprofen and Celebrex, and that diclofenac increased heart attacks, strokes and deaths the most, even at doses less than 150 milligrams a day. Several other studies also suggest that naproxen may be safer and... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Microsoft Article: SQL 2008 Backup and Restore, Part 1 Jun 18, 2009
This is sometimes done on very large databases to increase performance. Even if this is the case, selecting Database will include any and all Filegroups. (IntranetJournal)
Stanford gets first medical-stimulus funds Jun 17, 2009
His team is developing methods to allow scientists to understand disease patterns by sharing information from large databases. Dr. Ann Arvin, the university's vice provost and dean of research, also received a $444,000 grant for a project on the herpes simplex virus, which causes cold sores. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
CheckOrphan Launches iWish to Commemorate Rare Disease Day Feb 28, 2009
CheckOrphan's users benefit from several large databases that also include: events, treatments, research publications, physician-researcher-hospital-organization-industry databases, videos, daily newsletters and more. It is also home to iWish - every wish means hope for a better tomorrow. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
'Quantum Data Buffering' Scheme Demonstrated; Potentially Useful For Quantum Computers Feb 24, 2009
Quantum computers could potentially speed up or expand present capabilities in decrypting data, searching large databases, and other tasks. See also. (Science Daily)
ORNL, UT project could save vision of millions Feb 18, 2009
This project takes advantage of ORNL's proprietary content-based image retrieval technology, which quickly sorts through large databases and finds visually similar images. For more than a decade manufacturers of semiconductors have used this technology to rapidly scan hundreds of thousands of tiny semiconductors to learn quickly about problems in the manufacturing process. (EurekAlert!)
In digitizing healthcare, a battle over patient privacy Feb 11, 2009
To understand which medical interventions work best, researchers need access to large databases that include the outcomes of particular treatments for various diagnoses. "The key depends in the long run on who owns and controls the patient record," says Marc Roberts, a professor of political economy and health policy at Harvard's School of Public Health. (Christian Science Monitor)
Wozniak accepts post at a storage start-up Feb 8, 2009
Companies with large databases, including manufacturers, financial services firms and search engines like Google could benefit from the technology, said Joseph Unsworth, a technology analyst at the research firm Gartner. Dell has invested in Fusion-io, and the start-up has sales arrangements in place with Dell, Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M.. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Statins May Cause Rare Instances of Eye Disorders Feb 7, 2009
Dr. F. W. Fraunfelder and Dr. Amanda B. Richards, from the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health ce University, Portland, investigated adverse events of this type documented in three large databases and report their findings in the medical journal Ophthalmology. The team identified a total of 256 case reports of eye-muscle disorders associated with statins -- which include drugs such as Lipitor, Zocor, or Crestor, for example. (MEDLINEplus)
