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Database Management Systemb

The document discusses database management systems and how they are used in medical contexts. Databases store patient details so they can be accessed from anywhere within a hospital or its network of hospitals. With improvements in image compression, X-rays and scans can also be stored in databases and accessed in the same way. These multi-user databases are managed by software called a database management system (DBMS), which handles all requests for access to data from users or other programs.

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Database Management Systemb

The document discusses database management systems and how they are used in medical contexts. Databases store patient details so they can be accessed from anywhere within a hospital or its network of hospitals. With improvements in image compression, X-rays and scans can also be stored in databases and accessed in the same way. These multi-user databases are managed by software called a database management system (DBMS), which handles all requests for access to data from users or other programs.

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DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMB

Databases ………………………….(use) within a medical context for many purposes.


For example, they………………………(use) to hold patient details so
they…………………………. (access) from anywhere within a hospital or network of
hospitals. With the recent improvements in image compression techniques, X-rays and
scan output can also be held in databases and…………………………. (access) in the
same way. These multi-user databases…………………………. (manage) by a piece of
software called a Database Management system (DBM). It is this which differentiates a
database from an ordinary computer file. Between the physical databases itself (i.e., the
data as actually stored) and the user of the system is the DBMS. All requests for access
to data from users—whether people at terminals or other programs running in
batch………………….. (handle) by the DBMS.
Units of Memory
(1) Information is processed and (is) stored in computers as electrical signals. (2) A computer
contains thousands of electronic circuits connected by switches that can only be in one of two
possible states: ON (the current is flowing through the wire) or OFF (the current is not flowing
through the wire). (3) To represent these two conditions we use binary notation in which 1 means ON
and 0 means OFF. (4) This is the only way a computer can “understand” anything. (5) Everything
about computers is based upon this binary process. (6) Each 1 or 0 is called a binary digit or bit. (7)
1s and 0s are grouped into eight-digit codes that typically represent characters (letters, numbers
and symbols). (8) Eight bits together are called a byte. (9) Thus, each character in a
keyboard has its own arrangement of eight bits. (10) For example, 01000001 for the letter A,
01000010 for B and 01000011 for C (Esteras, 2000, p. 17).

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