Evaluation of the google search appliance for patient cohort discovery.
Rapid location of patient cohorts with specific attributes is critical to accelerating translational research. Given the ever-increasing popularity of web search engines for information retrieval, we performed an evaluation the Google Search Appliance (GSA) as a potential tool for performing a fast and simple retrospective analysis of our patient record for researchers discovering study cohorts. Overall, the GSA did not provide a significant advantage over conventional database queries. Possible reasons for this are presented.
Oberg
Ryan
R
Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA.
Rasmussen
Luke
L
Melski
John
J
Peissig
Peggy
P
Starren
Justin
J
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D018579:Patient Selection; D057386:Search Engine; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface