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Services Oriented Architectures and Just in Time Deployment of Ad-Hoc Health Surveillance Systems: Lessons from Katrina Relief Efforts
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Timely outbreak detection, and monitoring of morbidity and mortality among Katrina evacuees, and needs assessment for better planning and response were urgent information intensive priorities during Katrina relief efforts at… read more… evacuees seeking any form of health services from all care providers (academic, volunteers, federal, NGOs and … evacuees seeking any form of health services from all care providers (academic, volunteers, federal, NGOs and … evacuees seeking any form of health services from all care providers (academic, volunteers, federal, NGOs and … -
Automated Information Integration from Heterogeneous Data Sources: A Semantic Web Approach
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Integration of information from multiple disparate and heterogeneous sources is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning of data in different contexts. Semantic Web… read more… Kunapareddy, Arunkumar Srinivasan, Sean Byrne, S. Ward Casscells The University of Texas Health Science Center … using RDF and the Simple Knowledge Organization Stan- dard (SKOS) [3] developed by the Semantic Web community. … and medical records entries from emergency department visits, a combination of struc- tured, semi-structured and … -
Semantic Approach to Text Understanding of Chief Complaints Data
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Chief complaints are often represented textually and as a mixture of complex and context-dependant lexical symbols with little formal sentence structure. Although human experts usually comprehend this information in its right context intuitively and… read more… Data Parsa Mirhaji, Sean Byrne, Narendra Kunapareddy, S. Ward Casscells The University of Texas Health Science Center …