PHP always lacked an out-of-box library for database abstraction, but only until the advent of PDO (PHP Data Objects). PDO earlier existed as a PEAR package (plugin libraries for PHP).

A data modeler should abstract where necessary; and for the database model, “necessary” means when certain organizational objects are fluid or will change, or perhaps when business folks are still ...

Intermountain Health is deploying Layer Health’s AI engine for clinical data abstraction across several of its patient registries. The health system’s venture capital arm is also making a ...

The author discusses his results of measuring the performance degradation of Java programs while using various data abstraction features of the language.

DevOps that have worked well in other areas of information technology can’t hack it in big data, according to Ash Munshi (pictured), chief executive officer of Pepperdata Inc. “While agile and ...

Medical Care, Vol. 54, No. 10 (October 2016), pp. e65-e72 (8 pages) Background: Unstructured data encountered during retrospective electronic medical record (EMR) abstraction has routinely been ...