Professional medical search engine

• Pubmed
  PubMed
  PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
  
  
• GoPubMed
  GoPubMed
  GoPubMed is a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. TheGene Ontology and Medical Subject Headings serve as "Table of contents" in order to structure the millions of articles of the MEDLINE database. The search engine allows its users to find relevant search results significantly...
  
  
• Pubget
  Pubget
  Pubget, Inc. is a private American company that develops cloud-based search and content access tools for scientists. It provides advertising services, enterprise search services, and a public search engine. The company was founded in 2007 by Beth Israel Hospital clinical pathologist, Ramy Arnaout,...
  
  
• eTBLAST
  ETBLAST
  eTBLAST is a free text similarity service search engine currently offering access to the MEDLINE database, the National Institutes of Health CRISP database, the Institute of Physics database, Wikipedia, arXiv, the NASA technical reports database, Virginia Tech class descriptions and a variety of...
  
  
• Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library

Meta-search tools

• TRIP Database
  TRIP Database
  The TRIP Database is a free clinical search engine. Its primary function is to help clinicians identify the best available evidence with which to answer clinical questions. Its roots are firmly in the world of Evidence-based medicine.-History:...
  
  
• NLM Gateway
• Entrez
  Entrez
  The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a powerful federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search many discrete health sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information website...
  
  , NLM's cross-database search
• SUMSearch

Consumer health search engine

• MedlinePlus
  MedlinePlus
  MedlinePlus is a free Web site that provides consumer health information for patients, families, and Health care providers. The site brings together information from the United States National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health , other U.S. government agencies, and...
  
   by the U.S. NLM
• Healthfinder by the U.S. HHS
• Mednar
• Healthline
  Healthline
  Healthline Networks is a privately-owned provider of online health information for publishers, advertisers and health plans.-Overview:Healthline Networks is a privately-owned provider of online health information for publishers, advertisers and health plans. Healthline provides information on its...
  
  
• Medstory
• Healia
  Healia
  Healia is a health vertical search engine and online health community. Healia's search engine uses algorithms to assess quality and to categorize Web documents. Healia Communities is composed of online health support groups that enable people to share health experiences, connect with others, and...
  
  

See also

• Health informatics
  Health informatics
  .Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care...
  
  
• Medical Subject Headings
  Medical Subject Headings
  Medical Subject Headings is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences; it can also serve as a thesaurus that facilitates searching...
  
  
• Evidence-based medicine
  Evidence-based medicine
  Evidence-based medicine or evidence-based practice aims to apply the best available evidence gained from the scientific method to clinical decision making. It seeks to assess the strength of evidence of the risks and benefits of treatments and diagnostic tests...
  
  
• International Medical Informatics Association
  International Medical Informatics Association
  IMIA or the International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organisation that plays a role in promoting and furthering the application of information science in modern society, particularly in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine. It was established in 1967 as a...
  
  
• European Federation for Medical Informatics
  European Federation for Medical Informatics
  The European Federation for Medical Informatics is a non-profit organization, which was conceived at a meeting, assisted by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organisation , in Copenhagen, , in September 1976....
  
  

External links

• MEDLINE/PubMed
• William R. Hersh. Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. 2003, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0387955224
• The Top Five Medical Search Engines on the Web at About.com
  About.com
  About.com is an online source for original information and advice. It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company....
  
  by Wendy Boswell