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JAMIA 1996;3:273-280 doi:10.1136/jamia.1996.96413135
  • The Practice of Informatics
  • Applications of Technology

Clini Web: Managing Clinical Information on the World Wide Web

  1. William R Hersh,
  2. Keven E Brown,
  3. Larry C Donohoe,
  4. Emily M Campbell,
  5. Ashley E Horacek
  1. Affiliation of the authors: Biomedical Information Communication Center, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
  1. Correspondence and reprints: William Hersh, MD, Oregon Health Sciences University BICC, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97201. e-mail: hersh{at}ohsu.edu

    Abstract

    The World Wide Web is a powerful new way to deliver on-line clinical information, but several problems limit its value to health care professionals: content is highly distributed and difficult to find, clinical information is not separated from non-clinical information, and the current Web technology is unable to support some advanced retrieval capabilities. A system called CliniWeb has been developed to address these problems. CliniWeb is an index to clinical information on the World Wide Web, providing a browsing and searching interface to clinical content at the level of the health care student or provider. Its database contains a list of clinical information resources on the Web that are indexed by terms from the Medical Subject Headings disease tree and retrieved with the assistance of SAPHIRE. Limitations of the processes used to build the database are discussed, together with directions for future research.

    Footnotes

    • Initial funding for CliniWeb has been provided in part by Grant LM05307 from the National Library of Medicine and Grant DE-FGO6-94ER61918 from the Department of Energy.

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