Hi Jim,
Saw your post on the Forum and have put the website into my Favourites
already. Thank you for all the work you do.
Heather in Calgary
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From: "Jim Lubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: [TMIC] Neuro.Curbside.MD - neurologic disease search engine
For years, it has been difficult to find state of the art medical
information on rare neuroimmunologic disorders. Even experienced
neurologists may not have the case experience to accurately diagnose and
treat rare disease like transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica and
acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The challenge - particularly for
physicians - is to find the right medical information, at the right time,
within the right patient context. For the past several months, this unmet
need has been tackled by the Transverse Myelitis Association in a unique
partnership with Praxeon, a Boston-based healthcare startup. This month,
we announce the debut of Curbside.MD (www.curbside.md), the first medical
search engine devoted exclusively to neurologic disease.
"Curbside" refers to the medical practice of the curbside consult - where
physicians informally ask each other for advice on clinical questions.
Praxeon set out to replicate that model online, enabling medical
professionals to pose naturally phrased queries to real clinical
questions, and to get an answer from the best of evidence-based medicine.
Curbside.MD achieves this goal. Medical experts can get evidence based
answers to real, naturally phrased medical questions. Curbside.MD
utilizes a unique semantic fingerprinting technology to enable search
around complete sentences and even paragraphs of medical information.
Users are guaranteed accurate and relevant results from only the best
evidence based information available. And best of all, this is a free
site open to everyone.
Curbside.MD represents a fundamental innovation within medical search and
health informatics. The core technology is an underlying model embedded
within the language of medicine. This enables the search engine to
specifically understand medical terms and their abbreviations, synonyms
and hierarchical relationships. Curbside.MD embodies a number of unique
features not found within other search engines that enables the rapid
identification of the right clinical answer. Results are organized
intuitively into two major categories - Quick Consult for broad overviews
for the novice, and Best Evidence for in-depth focus for experts. Users
may also 'Specialize' by delving deeper into the literature with
analytical tools that extract disease and drug terms for rapid sorting.
In the coming months, Praxeon plans on supplementing Curbside.MD with a
physician forum. In the Curbside forums, doctors will be able to consult
each other on difficult cases, while simultaneously reviewing medical
evidence - relevant to their conversation - in real time. This will
represent a tremendous advance in information seeking for physicians
treating all neurological disorders, including the rarest ones. They will
have the opportunity to share their personal experiences and insights with
treatment - within an evidence based context. For more details on the
forum and other updates to the site, or to post your own comments, check
out the curbside blog at http://blog.curbside.md.
Give Curbside a try. Go to www.curbside.md and just type a question in
the search box. And don't limit yourself to keywords; challenge
Curbside.MD with a complete thought or question, even a paragraph of
something you're interested in. We think you'll be impressed with the
results and the potential for this new website. Here are some sample
questions to start you off:
"Is the neuromyelitis optica IgG status of acute partial transverse
myelitis predictive of longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis?"
http://www.curbside.md/focus/211
"What is the diagnostic workup required to distinguish a spinal epidural
abscess from transverse myelitis?"
http://www.curbside.md/curbside/entry_page/758
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