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
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 
kit to fix it so it won’t blow up on you. Over 300 tank explosions I guess made the case for the fix. 
practices knows what that is as it continued on from the original structure with paper charts right into electronic medical records and basically is the ground work to cover all the important items in a visit with a patient. The PKC data base was created to give support for “meaningful use” as well. What is interesting here is the access that patients will have to the data base of information and will be able to use it and forward to a physician and this way to put it in simple terms the doctor has the basis of the information he needs with contributions from the patient, and in the process the patient gets smarter too, so it sounds like this is a win-win. When Sharecare first came out, I had some reservations as we all do until we see it in actual operation and how it is formatted for use on the web. The big key here is to get “credible” information as the web is a jungle today. 
networks and become friends, a little like Facebook in format and each physician or other professional contributor has a profile of how many questions they have answered and where they are so in essence it looks like it drives some potential business to them if they might happen to be in the area of an inquiring consumer. 
Mehmet Oz and WebMD founder Jeff Arnold. 
cells have huge value as they are the ones that can be converted to other stem cell types, in other words you can take skin stem cells and turn them in heart cells for an example with reprogramming the production process. iPS cells were probably one of the biggest advances we have had with stem cell creation and what it enables science to accomplish. Disease treatments, growing human body parts for example are all wrapped into this area of R and D. 
In case you missed it the link below has more information about the lawsuit and again all this was uncovered due to a stolen lap top where confidential information about patients was being shared with companies on Wall Street looking to invest. BD 
enough then you know about “
What is interesting is to see the alcohol beverage industry jump in to this so you can read about the vodka you are about to digest but for something that could potentially have a deadly or bad side effect…nothing. 
of the nation’s prescription drug supply is poised to pass Congress, but without a tracking system that public health advocates say is critical to weeding out counterfeit pharmaceuticals. 
retailer and wholesaler with this acquisition. Boots is very similar to drug stores in the US with subsidizing income with products that are not drugs, so again like entering a typical US drug store like Walgreens. 
bringing two iconic brands together... and creating something new to the world," he said.
, and maybe he somehow forgot his own in the process? His license expired in 1999 but the state of Illinois does not have licensing rules for CMOs, also a bit strange. One doctor commented that they knew he was not licensed when he was hired eight years ago but money wise was not doing bad making a quarter of a million a year. BD 
pay rent, bills, etc. As I have mentioned before on a few occasions, the middle class and I should add retirees are just becoming “data chasers”. Was it his fault this mistake was made? No, but this “bad” consumer at the mercy of a retirement “algorithmic error” is going to pay the price…how analytics looks at us humans at times as we have very few folks that ethically know how to work with “flawed data” and this is a classic case. Punish that “bad” consumer who on a couple occasions risked his life doing his job! 
errors are being caught and again it was not due to any of the information entered by the retiree, it’s the system finding errors within and incriminating the retiree, which all of this is not his fault and is purely one more example of the “Attack of the Killer Algorithms. His case is not alone as we see businesses and others doing the same thing and where’ the ethics here? When numbers and profit enter the picture folks who lack balance and accountability for “their” errors make the consumers the “bad guy”. 
“desired” results, they should also be held accountable for their accuracy and we don’t’ have much of this as lawmakers and others, including bank executives sit in denial or kind of play dumb and it gets reported in the news as yet one more OMG story, but nobody digs to the bottom to find the “cause”. Maybe I was ahead of myself here, but back in August of 2009 I asked the question, “do we need a department of algorithms” when the Madoff case was discovered. He even figured out how to “fake” algorithms” he never had and created his Ponzi scheme based on the naïve nature on which lawmakers react today and look at the people who were hurt there. 
released from his sentence a smart judge through it out and I myself questioned the bulls run he received with his court case. I’m not saying he was innocent or guilty but the dog and pony show done by Goldman played on the lack of education with high tech data today and again, luckily a judge finally came to terms with this and saw it for what it was and over turned the conviction. You can’t get a jury of peers today with some of the very complicated algorithms we have working today just about.