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Posted in List, Top 10, health, review, search, searchengine on Dec 30th, 2008
Mednar has just been voted the ‘clear number one‘ by Medical librarian and author - Hope Leman (writing for AltSearchEngines.com) in her Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008.
My list is based on ‘rapid resolution’ at the bedside (or at least pretty close to it!). Needing to find answers to clinical questions, guidelines, images to demonstrate signs [...]
Posted in education, evidence based medicine, search, searchengine, technology on Dec 30th, 2008
Mednar is a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers to quickly access information from a multitude of credible sources. Researchers can take advantage of Mednar’s many tools to narrow their searches, drill down into topics and discover new information sources.
Mednar is here and it is good. Check it out medical librarians, public library staff, [...]
Posted in Health Reports, education, elearning, emergency medicine, evidence based medicine, radiology, technology on Dec 30th, 2008
Yottalook is free radiology-centric web search engine and was designed to provide the practicing radiologists with the most important and relevant information at the time of patient care. The search engine is based on natural query analysis, semantic ontology and ranking algorithms powered by iVirtuoso. The thesaurus of medical terminologies is supported by the Radiology Society of North [...]
Posted in education, elearning, evidence based medicine, health, review, search, searchengine, technology, telehealth on Dec 18th, 2008
Health Sciences Online (HSO) has launched claiming to be a ‘virtual learning center’ which aims to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge using the search technology of Vivisimo. HSO (www.hso.info) is a portal with browse and search functions with access to a comprehensive collection of top-quality courses and references in medicine, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, basic sciences, [...]
Posted in anaesthetics, education, elearning, lecture, review, search, searchengine on Nov 5th, 2008
The many and varied world of the HealthCare blogger and Health Tweeple has led me to be connected with @doctorblogs, which in turn led to the exploration of the blogs on OnMedica.com.
OnMedica has a great range of clinical articles, blogs, news and views but I was particularly taken with the medical search engine ‘Dr Socrates Medical [...]
Posted in education, evidence based medicine, networking, search, searchengine on Oct 7th, 2008
Advancing medical search for health professionals is a hot topic. We have already reviewed SearchMedica, GoPubMed, Hakia PubMed and Semantic Medline Cognition -now we turn our attention to ScienceRoll Search Engine.
Personalized search home pages such as BuildaSearch, Rollyo and Samfind are not new to the search genre, but well structured medical search engines with credible sources [...]
Posted in health, search, searchengine on Sep 25th, 2008
GoPubMed.org is an amazing piece of search architecture. It is a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts based on GO (gene ontology) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) developed in 2004. GoPubMed retrieves PubMed abstracts for your search query and sorts relevant information into the categories of ‘What, Who, Where or When’.
The ‘What’ category collates [...]
SearchMedica have teamed with ModernMedicine.com to provide this great ‘Professional Medical Search’ resource. SearchMedica is a health professional search engine which scans reputable journals, systematic reviews, and evidence-based articles to provide search results. Although SearchMedica displays fewer results than standard search engines, I found the return to be very accurate, clinically relevant and surprisingly comprehensive.
There [...]
Hakia semantic technologies have turned their attention to professional medical search with the provision of a dedicated semantic medical search of PubMed to provide credible, fresh and relevant search results. This move away from the ‘popularity-ranked’ results produces some enlightening and interesting search results to queries. The medical version for hakia can be found at [...]
Posted in health, search, searchengine on Sep 24th, 2008
Professional search engines are leaning towards increasing sophistication to provide access to diagnostically accurate, peer reviewed and validated information physicians.
The race is on to find the most efficient way for health professionals to search for clinical images, textbook/journal articles or answers to key clinical questions. Traditionally this search has been labor intensive and frustrating unless [...]
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