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The article offers information on several meetings to be held in Atlanta on May 4, 2016 at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia which includes the Annual IA Summit and the Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit.

EDITOR'S SUMMARY Text and data mining have proven to greatly impact the world of biomedical research, especially for Roche Diagnostics in Penzberg, Germany. Taking information from such sources as patient literature, genomic cancer samples and PubMed articles, researchers at Roche Diagnostics are able to structure the data in a way that lends itself to creating personalized healthcare. Text mining used to build structured databases tends to yield the most relevant information for biomedical research, so Roche uses unstructured data to build a knowledge base automatically. This knowledge base, the disease marker association database, offers search capabilities for full text, abstracts or curated data. The database is made up of 50-million scientific abstracts and leans on rule-based engines as well as machine learning engines. By combining information from patient care, diagnoses and treatment, the healthcare industry can see a shift to digitization and more efficient care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the efforts of the Benrath Senior Center in Düsseldorf, Germany, to address the problem of residents attempting to leave the facility in an effort to return home or reunite with family. Benrath has erected a fake bus stop just outside their facility to detain any residents with dementia or Alzheimer's disease who might stray. It notes that most residents are drawn to the bus stop sign and five minutes later, they have completely forgotten they wanted to leave.