Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

Hi, We are working on a medical project, where CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 - FDA certification mandatory for the software we use to build the application. Could somebody confirm whether Cassandra is got the

Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

Hi, Did anyone used Cassandra in medical industry since FDA enforces CFR 21 (part 11) compliance ? Regards, Sudhakar Legal Disclaimer : The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. It is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addres

Re: Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

Is that an encryption related policy? If you can clarify — maybe able to get better answers. There are products like Vormetrics (?) which can encrypt data at rest. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Mar 29, 2018, 12:23 AM -0400, Sudhakar Ganesan , wrote: > Hi, > > Did an

Re: Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

I haven't use Vormetric, but have worked with a couple teams doing disk encryption using LUKS: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/blob/master/README.md I haven't read through that FDA guideline, and tbh I'm not going to - if there's a specific question you have it would be better to ask it r

Re: Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

Rahul, CFR 21 (part 11) is an FDA-mandated electronics records standard. For any software solution built for the life sciences / pharma industries, compliance with this standard is a must. There are three parts to this: (1) Controls and audit of user logins / forcing re-login when session times

Re: Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

If you require a full audit trail then you'll need to do this in your data model. I recommend looking to event sourcing, which is a way of tracking all changes to an entity over its lifetime. https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html Instead of thinking of data as global mutable state,

Re: Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

You are right. One of the products that I was involved with had an “eAudit” feature baked into the application layer tracking every change and capturing user, changed value, affected attribute / column, an event type (insert, update, delete), and the datetime stamp of the event. Sudhakar - your

Re: Is Cassandra used in Medical industry?

Sudhakar - an additional comment: The eAudit feature I mentioned was the underpinning for that product’s CFR 21 (Part 11) compliance. Over the years, several pharmaceutical companies would visit our product development sites to conduct their audits and this feature was demonstrated to show comp