• 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