Denver, July 20: Larry Ellison, chief executive of Oracle on Friday renewed his campaign for a government-initiated database of US medical and criminal records, the kind of sweeping and controversial project the No. 2 software vendor has offered to undertake before. "There should be one system," Ellison told some 3,000 attendees at Colorado governor Bill Owens' third annual technology conference in Denver.

A unified system would be both cheaper and safer, eliminating many of the current problems in health care and criminal justice, he said.

For example, patients risk adverse drug reactions because one pharmacy that fills a prescription has no way of knowing another pharmacy might have provided a second drug that could make the patient sick if both were taken together. Bureau Report