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Semantic Empowerment of Health Care and Life Science Applications

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Semantic Empowerment of Health Care and Life Science Applications

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Date:: 26 May 2006, 00:00–00:00 Coordinated Universal Time
Location:: Edinburgh, UK
Speakers:: Amit Sheth

http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/0526-www-SW-HCLS.pdf

Health care practices and bioinformatics have already succeeded in utilizing database management, workflow and information retrieval technologies, which have provided syntactic search, heterogeneous data access and sharing, and limited forms of integration. We can realize more exciting potential of health care and life science if we have more automated ways for analysis leading to insight and discovery.