Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:19:00 +0100
Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19961113101912.2ddf3784@krzsun.med-rz.uni-sb.de>
To: medibib-l@medweb.uni-muenster.de
From: Ulla Klug <ubuklu@med-rz.uni-sb.de>
Subject: (fwd) New Search Engine Specifically for the Medical Field
Zur Information an alle Medibib'ler
und viele Gruesse aus dem Saarland
Ulla Klug
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
>Dear HSPNET list member,
>
>We have developped a unique search engine that allows searching for medical
>information on the World Wide Web by medical terms rather than simply
>words. We hope that it will help solve the problem of searching
>for medical information on the Web despite the many different ways
>of saying a disease (such as heart attack, myocardial infarction,
>myocardium infarction, and so forth). We have indexed the full
>text of a large list of medical sites, and built knowledge of
>medical terms into our system (the system knows MeSH, ICD, CPT,
>or SNOMED terms - any term that is in the Unified
>Medical Language System from the National Library of Medicine).
>The search engine automatically recognizes the medical terms in a
>plain english sentence entered, and automatically searches for
>synonymous terms and more specific terms (explosion), as in the
>MEDLINE database. Options in the search results page allow
>to specify Boolean queries, and to search for a specific term
>in the thesaurus and add it to your query. You can also submit
>queries using medical terminology to other search
>engines such as Infoseek or Altavista.
>
>The URL for the search engine is:
>
> http://www.mwsearch.poly.edu/
>
>This engine is still currently in development, so we welcome any
>suggestions for improvements: there is a link to a discussion forum where
>you might post such comments.
>
>Humbert Suarez, MD PhD
>Polytechnic Research Institute for Development and Enterprise (PRIDE)
>Polytechnic University
>Hawthorne, NY
>humbert@pride-i2.poly.edu
>
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