You should be able to sit at your PC and enter your proposed trademark and in about a 20th of a second get an answer back through one of the public databases on the network.

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The data warehouse environment comprises marketing databases, call systems, customer service, GSM network statistical data, invoicing systems, collections and retrievals and all logistics information.

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In an IoE world, every ambulance and fire truck, every medical device, even clothing people wear, could talk to the network, sending information back to a database that can then interact with other databases.

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Researchers in the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) performed a retrospective observational analysis of administrative databases in Canada, the UK and the US containing more than 2 million patients newly treated with statins. 59, 636 of the subjects already had chronic kidney disease.

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Or imagine databases from many different sources, private and public, coming together in a centralized network that would look for patterns and try to translate them into new ideas for anticipating and preventing health problems.

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