Oracle announces that the University
of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT-Houston) uses Semantic Web
Technology from Oracle and TopQuadrant, to enable public health preparedness
and allow for improved decision making.
Building on Oracle's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Data Model,
which offers the industry's first open, scalable, secure and reliable
RDF management platform, UT-Houston's SAPPHIRE system facilitates bio-surveillance
and symptom trending.
"Oracle and TopQuadrant allow UT-Houston to shift the center of
gravity for public healthcare delivery by moving beyond symptom detection
to large-scale public health surveillance, ..."Parsa Mirhaji,
M.D., director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics
Research at the University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences
at Houston. |