Word: databank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conversation subsides while a contestant from Chicago attempts to answer a question worth $64,000. The tension mounts while the man searches in his mental databank for the rapper who sang "Cop Killa...
...heart attacks painstakingly etched into silicon over nearly 30 years. Each spasm, each chemical released into the bloodstream by a dying heart muscle, each patient's treatment, is registered in this giant multivariate database by doctors, nurses and researchers at Duke University. The heart of the Medical Center's Databank for Cardiovascular Disease, these computers tell doctors, with greater certainty and accuracy every day, the best ways to treat not just heart attacks but a variety of other heart problems as well...
Like an economics student analyzing inflation, interest and unemployment rates and coming up with a forecast of which way the economy will go, the Duke databank, now a part of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, correlates important information about the body--enzyme levels, age, family history--into a prediction of how a given patient will respond to a certain type of treatment. Doctors on five continents dial into the system, type in the critical components of their patient's problem and get a recommendation for treatment based on the thousands of patients who have passed that way before...
...idea of transferring knowledge instead of patients may be the most important medical trend of the next decade. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, such information and expertise warehouses as the Duke Databank and Henry Ford Hospital will become resources for doctors all over the world. Knowledge that once took decades or years to spread from research centers to practicing physicians now moves in hours...
...Gene frequency differs from subpopulation tosubpopulation," says Hartl. "When you startcomparing with a databank containing DNA types ofall ethnic groups [put together], the matchfrequency seems smaller than it actually...