I wrote the post back in December of 2010 with the title to beware
of the DNA Snatchers of the future and now it looks like the future is here, or at least Madonna is not taking any chances. Private investigators soon may take on a whole new identify. As we have all read your DNA can easily be picked up off a glass where you drank some water, a beverage at a bar and so on.
Beware of the DNA Snatchers of the Future
What happens when your DNA gets stolen and used illegally? We all know what a hassle it is with our personal information but what do you do about something like this? As sequencing becomes cheaper and folks have time on their hands, who knows what could occur. There’s black market everything out there today and she’s making sure that she or any part of her doesn’t get cloned in some fashion or another. This kind of gives a new meaning to the words “material girl” when someone could be seeking DNA:) BD
The pop star apparently uses a "DNA Sterilization Team" on her current tour, according to Britain's Daily Mail. The team cleans and disinfects each dressing room Madonna uses on the tour, literally wiping away any trace of the singer.
"We have to take extreme care, like I have never seen for any other artist," said Álvaro Ramos, the promoter handling the Portugal dates on Madonna's tour.
"We cannot even look at the dressing room after it is ready, or even open the door," he says. "We can only enter after her sterilization team has left the room. There will not be any of Madonna's DNA, any hair, or anything. They will clean up everything. In the end it is all to protect her and make her feel comfortable. I do understand it, but it is taken to extremes."
http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_20934876/hicks-madonna-using-dna-sterilization-team-tour
ethically doing business, but as you read in the news, we are all of sudden finding a entire slew of folks who are not, surprised? You shouldn’t be as this has been going on a long time but as folks getter smarter about the methodologies that have been used for a number of years, it’s all coming out. Sure someone can like their business algorithms but if ethics are compromised in the act then what do we have? Maybe I should ask someone on Wall Street about that while I’m at it. What started all of this..a stolen notebook that shows their lack of ethics and HIPAA violations. 
but nine notebooks were stolen so nine times the potential exposure possibly, depending on what they were carrying around. The Vice President of the company left a non encrypted laptop with around 24k patients' information on the computer, gee and we wonder why executives are kind of useless today, but you could almost be he preaches to employees NOT to do this:) This was also Chapter 28 of my Attack of the Killer Algorithm series. 
disease (PAD) and if you are not familiar with PAD (peripheral arterial disease) , here’s a couple back links and an interview I did with Cook Medical a while back with Rob Lyles with Cook Medical.. CLU occurs when PAD goes to the worst case and leads to amputation to where 25% of the patients die due to the procedures. Let’s face it nobody wants to lose a leg. Back in 2009 I first spoke with Rob Lyles from the peripheral intervention division. 
cross arterial blockages. Individuals1 and single centers
Sometimes it’s interesting to take a look at what’s happening in other countries relative to the rising cost of healthcare and when you read this it’s apparent that this is not only an US problem. Granted Israel is a much smaller country but the problem are the same, money or lack of. Just a couple months ago, doctors who work for the state received an order that they needed to punch a time clock. How would that work in the US…I don’t think it would accomplish much here. 
a former software writer, hopefully some of this will explain in layman’s terms how some of this works behind the scenes it may offer some answers. It’s not going to make you happy but it will open your eyes as to how the world of technology functions today with decision making and perhaps give you an idea of where it’s headed too.
Math–This Could be a Subject for Michael Moore to Explore and Document In a Movie
Screenings Too–Killer Algorithms Part 12–Medical Billing Codes Style
Assessing Consumer Credit Scores–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 21 With Flawed Data
awareness and how we and our government moves forward with this reality, it remains to be seen if we can scoot around the big white elephant in the living room that nobody can see, touch or talk to <grin> but it roars. Richard Cordray has his work cut out for him and that is an understatement. 
out for other agencies and I wrote about that a while back. Too bad our Congress has not figured out that they too could maybe ask the DOE for some super computing space to figure out their data needs when making laws:) Looks like we booted China out of the #1 spot, at least for now. 
supercomputer built on IBM Power architecture at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The emergence of Sequoia has returned the U.S. to the top spot of the 
of this blog. I was one of the very first adopters of a tablet computer and I think that goes back to around 2001. It’s been a long time and I currently have an Acer Windows Tablet. The only thing that it lacks is enough battery life to make me happy but you can’t have everything. I still have this particular tablet as well from Tablet Kiosk and you see it regularly on CSI New York, except they use a black one. 
around HMMS with my tablet and One Note and in those days one was considered a “goober” if you had it in tote as most vendors only showed and used them in the booths:) Today all that has changed but the article below is still very applicable on using One Note as “intelligence files” and really work a convention and get everything covered that you set out to do. I did it and had everything I needed and One Note did the queries for my information both before and at the show. I talked and wrote my notes in One Note. Everyone kept coming up and asking me what booth others were in as I had that too":) Just think this is only 4 years later and how far we have come with tablets. You can see a sample image as to how my rough files looked before I began with all the notes I took. 
and I remember the one night back in Santa Monica at our meeting at Microsoft where we all got to see one of the first tablets previewed even before they were released and a special employee from Microsoft arrived to give us the unannounced prior presentation. I just wrote to a Microsoft Tablet MVP who made a video of it to see if he could dig it out for nostalgia purposes:) The video quality is not what we have today but seeing this from 2001 would be fun to look back at. I’ve mobile before it was cool to be mobile and Pocket PCs were not phones yet:) 
tablet to enter data in his medical records program in 2007. At any rate I hope before too long that I am able to get my hands on one of the Surface units and really check it out. Little humor, this is far cry from a Mike Arrington Crunch Pad for those that remember:) It’s been a while so time for a little friendly reminder of the project. For your absolute utter enjoyment here’s a picture of a couple of tablets running my antiquated VB6 medical records system, although it was hot at the time and your screens could be any color you wanted:) If that picture did anything for you, there’s more at this link of some screenshots of the antiquated coder/blogger at work. Boy the formatting was tough to get right for the little tablet. 
work horse and of course I will be interested to see what battery life is like as for years it seem as if you want more power you get less battery and even the IPAD with it’s wonderful engineering only does one program at a time and that’s how the battery can last so long. They really did a good job on that design, however let’s see what Surface can do and for sure it stands to be a huge tool for the enterprise and healthcare world with medical records. Tablets have come such a long way since that first little Acer I had years ago. BD 
kit to fix it so it won’t blow up on you. Over 300 tank explosions I guess made the case for the fix. 
covered what was going on with Mr. Ellison and Oracle but when you hear the entire interview you get a real glimpse of how he thinks and works and we haven’t heard a lot of that as this goes beyond the media coverage you normally hear. I like how he discusses the “cloud” technology and he’s right, it has been around forever and the opinion on how it became the buzzword we live by today is interesting. 
Hawaii too. He has no limits:) When asked about his image that is projected in the media, he’s extremely funny and candid. He’s definitely one of a kind and has the left brain in gear and then some as he knows code as well as marketing and his company. It took 6 to 7 years to re-write all the Oracle applications for the cloud, so keep this in check when you think about how we function today and the amount of coding and development it takes to move to the cloud with applications. I said a while back when the President had his meetings with the brilliant men of code, he was there to learn, “aka men who write code”. 
. He says it is madness that someone gets their PHD from Stanford and then get a note to “get out”. We don’t have enough “trained engineers” in the US and finishes up the interview by saying “it’s insane” what we do. I agree. Great interview and nice insight into what makes “Larry” tick..he’s one of most valuable “hybrid” personalities and individuals walking the earth today and he has logic, marketing, engineering and humor all wrapped into one.