But the artist's affinity for this narrative, notes Carnegie Museum curator Louise Lippincott, might have been more personal.

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Not really a cookbook, and not really a narrative, Notes From A Kitchen is a unique kind of book, sort of backstage all access pass into the world of culinary arts and the culinary lifestyle.

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Less than three years ago, bioinformaticians at Stanford University set out to capture information buried, not just in insurance claims, lab tests or medical codes, but in the rich narrative of 10 million clinical notes gleaned from 1.8 million patients on Epic Systems electronic health records.

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She kept track of the dangling narrative threads by sticking Post-it Notes around her computer monitor.

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Apixio of San Mateo, Calif. is helping doctors piece together a more complete narrative of their patients, by capturing nuggets of information strewn across multiple databases and hidden in consultation notes and scanned documents.

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