Clinicians need an accurate list of their patients’ medications to avoid prescribing errors and provide optimal care. Over time, a patient’s medications will be pre­ scribed by many different providers and dispensed by many different pharmacists, and medication records tend to be scattered. Consequently, clinicians today must gather a medi­ cation history, including both active and inactive med...

Pangaea is a wide-area file system that enables ad-hoc collaboration in multi-national corporations or in distributed groups of users. This paper describes Pangaea’s approach for keeping the file-system’s name space consistent and proves its correctness. Maintaining the name space is a simple matter in traditional file systems that store the entire volume in a single node. It is not so in Panga...

BACKGROUND The Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) is an FDA database providing rich information on voluntary reports of adverse drug events (ADEs). Normalizing data in the AERS would improve the mining capacity of the AERS for drug safety signal detection and promote semantic interoperability between the AERS and other data sources. In this study, we normalize the AERS and build a publicly a...