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The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and Childrens' Hospital Los Angeles have been working together to build a software tool. Dubbed Pediatric Emergency Decision Support System, or PEDSS, the tool is designed to help medical service providers more effectively plan for, train for, and respond to serious incidents and disasters involving kids. The project, a part of the Pediatric Disaster Resource and Training Center (PDRTC), has been going on for about eight months. Dr. Tatyana Ryutov, a research scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute, is working on the system. Recently, the Institute contacted Joshua Tauberer, the creator of Govtrak.us and the man who maintains a large Resource Description Framework, or RDF (define), data set of U.S. Census data, about making SPAQRL queries to that data with the PEDSS. “PEDSS helps hospital disaster-response personnel produce and maintain disaster-response plans that apply best-practice pediatric recommendations to their particular local conditions and requirements,” Dr. Ryutov wrote in an e-mail to SemanticWeb.com. RELATED ARTICLES Google Eyes Medical Records, Data Sharing Business Eyeing the Personal Health Portal Microsoft 'Amalgamates' Healthcare Offerings Health Drives iMedix Medical Records Anywhere, Anytime For more stories on this topic: Specific data on community demographics, geography and neighboring industries... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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