Admit it, when you’re feeling under the weather, and you’re not sure what’s wrong, you probably reach for a search engine before calling your doctor. Now, Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris and a team of researchers at Columbia University have developed Remedy. It’s a prototype search system that cuts through Internet clutter and helps people find relevant results.
As the Microsoft Research Connections Blog puts it, “General-purpose web search engines give a broad array of results, without providing tools to help people narrow in on technical or non-technical content, avoid ads, and spot indicators of quality and credibility.”
Remedy, on the other hand, helps users find reliable, patient-friendly educational material more easily. It supports rapid filtering and comparison of medication information search results, and summarizes the topics that it finds in those results. It also provides a topic-based view in which users can see what multiple sites have to say about a single topic of interest.
Read more about this on the Microsoft Research Connections Blog, where you’ll also find this video that shows how Remedy helps patients find relevant, reliable information about their medications.
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