SwetsWise Medical Searcher

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SwetsWise Medical SearcherPowered by Explorit Research Accelerator

By Abe LedermanPresident and CTO

July 15, 2012

Healthcare’s Heartbeat• There are 3 billion terabytes

of information out there.• There are 700,000 articles

added to the medical literature every year.

• With better search tools, 275 million improved decisions could be made.

• Clinicians spend 1/3 of their time looking for information.

“Wikipedia…it’s so easy to retrieve information from. But doctors are now starting to use that instead of the best evidence-based sources out there to find answers to their questions. So we need better information management and search tools, to curate the most valuable sources that are out there.”Dr. Karl KochendorferTEDX MU, April 23, 2012Topic: Seek and Ye Shall Find

A Compelling Case

What is the Deep Web?

The Deep Web is a collection of internet information sources that are generally not accessible to web spiders or crawlers and cannot, therefore, be indexed for search by popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo! or Bing (a.k.a. the Surface Web).

It is estimated that there is more than 500 times more content in the Deep Web than the Surface Web.

DEEP WEB

Surface Web

General Clinical Information Organization-specific Information

Wikipedia

Subscription Information

Medical Journals Nursing References

Google

What is “Federated Search”?

“Federated Search is an application or service that allows users to submit a real-time search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duplicated results.”

Public WebSources

One Search, Many Sources

Online NursingReferences

eBooks

Enter Your Search… Begin Search

Health Resources Medical

Journals

ClinicalTrials

Social Media

Why Federated Search? 4 Big Reasons…

1. Provides greater efficiency than searching sources one by one

2. Returns the most current information because sources are searched in real-time

3. Eliminates learning disparate publisher interfaces

4. Simplifies discovery of the most relevant results

Partners since January 2010

The Vision

A single search interface to find critical information that you and your staff need for important decision-making.

About Texas Medical Center

TMC is the largest medical complex in the world.

92,500 full-time Employees51 Institutions1,300 Acres

TMC Includes…

• Texas Heart Institute• The University of Texas M. D.

Anderson Cancer Center• Prairie View A&M University, College

of Nursing• University of Houston• Houston Academy of Medicine• Houston's Ronald McDonald House

“As the main information resource for these hospitals, medical schools, and specialty institutions, the TMC Library needed a solution that quickly and reliably provided the most pertinent, up-to-date medical research. DWT’s Explorit federated search has been an excellent fit to our needs.”James C. YoungDirector of IT and Institutional Relations

TMC Testimonial

TMC ProSearch

Find It!TMC’s Link Resolver

Citation Management

Nurses portal

Other Medical Searcher Examples

Alaska Medical Library

What’s coming next?

Visualization

Using our clustering technology, results visualization allows users to see relationships between topics easily.

Mendeley

Document Type and Document Format Clusters

other (236)

Full Text Filter

“Would you also like to search for…”

Thank you!

Abe Lederman abe@deepwebtech.com

SwetsWise Medical Searcher

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