5 November 2007

Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services and National Library of Medicine Go Live with Velocity

Leading Medical Organizations Using Velocity to Provide Quick and Easy Access to Medical Information

Pittsburgh, PA—Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leading provider of enterprise search software and expertise, today announced that the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Norwegian Knowledge Centre (NOKC) for Health Services have gone live with their deployments of the Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search platform. Vivisimo has empowered both organizations to adapt Velocity to meet the specific needs of their site visitors with the goal of providing quick and easy access to medical information.

Based in Oslo, Norway, the NOKC gathers and disseminates evidence about the effect and quality of methods and interventions within all parts of the health services. The NOKC site, Helsebiblioteket (www.helsebiblioteket.no), provides nationwide access to medical journals, databases and other content resources relevant to healthcare personnel. As part of its customization of Velocity, the NOKC created a toggle so site users can identify their role and immediately get results most relevant to their current need. Additionally, the NOKC has given users a variety of ways to navigate through search results. Visitors to the site can browse topics through clustering or drill down into practice areas or sources. The site also displays multi-lingual results in Norwegian, English and Dutch.

"Velocity empowered us with the flexibility to tailor the search experience for our site visitors, giving them quick and easy access to vital medical information," said Kjell Tjensvoll, consortium manager, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services. "We anticipate a big increase in our usage statistics because we are making important information much easier to find. Our goal is to provide tools that are practical and deliver results fast enough to be useful in a clinical context."

The NLM, the world's largest biomedical library, customized Velocity by adding spotlights of health topics that relate to the search query above the search results. The spotlights provide searchers with a consistent frame of reference and definition of the highlighted disease, condition or wellness issue. Additionally, the NLM allows visitors to navigate results by the different collections they support such as Medline Plus and Online Exhibits with folders on the left.

"With Velocity, we've accomplished our objective to provide a search experience that mirrors the quality that NLM users have come to expect," said Joyce Backus, deputy chief of NLM's Public Services Division. "NLM is proud to bring this search to site visitors so they can quickly find the most pertinent health information."

"Vivisimo is proud to see Velocity contribute to the well being of thousands of users around the world through quick and easy access to medical information," said Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo. "The Norwegian Knowledge Centre and the National Library of Medicine are thriving due in part to Velocity's flexibility to meet the specific needs of each site's visitors. As a company, we are pleased with the inroads we've made within the global medical community highlighted by the recent successes of these two remarkable organizations."

About the National Library of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.

About the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services

Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services was founded in January 2004. The Centre is organized under The Directorate for Health and Social Affairs but is scientifically and professionally independent. The Centre has no authority to develop health policy or responsibility to implement policies. The organization disseminates evidence about the effect and quality of methods and interventions within all parts of the health services. The uptake of this evidence by the health services is also an important goal for the Centre's activities.

About Vivisimo

Vivisimo does search right by combining the simplicity and innovation of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software. The company works with customers to understand their goals and quickly deploy solutions that maximize the business value of information—with an interface users love. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world. Please visit vivisimo.com to learn more about us and visit our Search Done Right blog to learn more about enterprise search.