%0 Journal Article %J Stud Health Technol Inform %D 2014 %T An open-source, mobile-friendly search engine for public medical knowledge. %A Samwald, Matthias %A Hanbury, Allan %K Computers, Handheld %K Consumer Health Information %K Data Mining %K Evidence-Based Medicine %K Information Dissemination %K Internet %K Search Engine %K Software %K Software Design %K User-Computer Interface %X

The World Wide Web has become an important source of information for medical practitioners. To complement the capabilities of currently available web search engines we developed FindMeEvidence, an open-source, mobile-friendly medical search engine. In a preliminary evaluation, the quality of results from FindMeEvidence proved to be competitive with those from TRIP Database, an established, closed-source search engine for evidence-based medicine.

%B Stud Health Technol Inform %V 205 %P 358-62 %8 2014 %G eng