RE: What OraStaff was recruiting for?

Doubtful. Do you think IBM would advocate using another database product for a new application in development? cool idea though. I dream of being on a project with a budget like this... Know what the budget was on my last project? staff = 2 people, hardware/software = $60,000.

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
954-935-4117

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> ** Mayo Sees Databases As Way To Improve Treatments
>
> The Mayo Clinic and IBM are developing an advanced medical
> database that would combine clinical records with demographics
> and even genomic information to give medical researchers a
> resource for supporting clinical trials and improving treatment.
> The system is expected to help Mayo physicians diagnose illnesses
> faster and prescribe better-tailored treatments.
>
> Doctors needing clinical, genomic, proteomic (protein-related),
> and demographic data now have to search multiple databases, a
> process that can take days, says Bill Wong, IBM's director of DB2
> for Linux and life sciences. The new system would use IBM's DB2
> database and DiscoveryLink software, letting physicians search
> multiple Mayo databases with a single SQL query, he says.
>
> IBM and the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., are still
> identifying what data is needed for the central database, Wong
> says. The database would include archived records collected from
> consenting patients. It would also help Mayo researchers identify
> potential clinical-trial participants.
>
> Spending for IT hardware, software, and services by the
> life-sciences industry is expected to reach $43 billion by 2004,
> according to market consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, with data
> management alone accounting for $4.5 billion. - Rick Whiting
>
> For more on technology and health, see
> Hands-Off Medicine Promises Healthy Payoffs
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