Labels:text | soft drink | drawing OCR: THE PRESCRIPTION-INFO PIPELINE UNIX Servers 140 million prescriptions per month Leased Lines VPN Mainframe A. Each month, NDC receives B. NDC feeds the data- C. A "named pipe" dedicated D'. Using dedicated lines or data on about 140 million stripped of confidential processor converts the data virtual private networks [VPNs) prescription drug sales from patient information - Into its into ASCII format and loads to access the servers, NDC pharmacies, drugstore mainframe and open systems the information for cach chains, health-care providers, as part of a huge1.8-torabyte client directly into an Oracle: clients query the data stores to track the effectiveness of their and data brokers. data warehouse. based data store marketing and sales efforts.
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