DocumentCode
579458
Title
Improving Online Access to Drug-Related Information
Author
Li, Jiao ; Khare, Ritu ; Lu, Zhiyong
Author_Institution
Nat. Center for Biotechnol. Inf. (NCBI), Nat. Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
fYear
2012
fDate
27-28 Sept. 2012
Firstpage
148
Lastpage
148
Abstract
Seeking drug-related information is one of the top activities of today´s online health consumers. To facilitate consumers´ access to trustworthy drug information, we first improve the drug search effectiveness by adding a list of rich and up-to-date brand names to drug content that is typically classified with its active ingredients. Once the consumer finds a drug of interest, we further provide them with an integrated access to other relevant healthcare resources. The results of our computational methods are integrated into a production system and have been used by millions of health consumers.
Keywords
drugs; health care; medical information systems; active ingredients; brand name assignment; drug search improvement; drug-related information; healthcare resources; online access improvement; online health consumer access; production system; trustworthy drug information; Conferences; Diseases; Drugs; Informatics; Libraries; Production systems; RxNorm; brand name assignement; consumer health informatics; drug-related diseases; ranking algorithm;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology (HISB), 2012 IEEE Second International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-4803-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HISB.2012.73
Filename
6366129
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