Customer Service
6 February 2009
New Vivisimo Case Study Details Medical Search
Innovative Medical Site Uses Search to Improve Point-of-Care Decisions
Pittsburgh, PA — Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leader in enterprise search, recently published a case study describing how its Velocity Search Platform™ helps health-care practitioners deliver faster and better decisions while delivering care to patients.
The case study details Vivisimo’s application for Epocrates Inc., (http://www.epocrates.com/), which develops clinical information and decision support tools that enable healthcare professionals to find answers more quickly and confidently at the point of care. More than 500,000 healthcare professionals, including one in four U.S. physicians, use Epocrates.
Vivisimo’s Epocrates case study (http://vivisimo.com/docs/caseepocrates) covers a number of critical search issues, including the importance to Epocrates of quick implementation, as well as technological features such Velocity’s federated search and clustering capabilities.
Key points in the case study include:
- Minimize health-care workers’ time searching for drug and disease monographs
- Vivisimo’s rapid deployment enabled on-time service delivery
- Save health-care workers’ time by clustering topical information
- Offer content from locally indexed as well as federated sources
About Vivisimo, Inc.
Vivisimo provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow end-users to find and take advantage of all appropriate and available information, regardless of source, location or type. Vivisimo’s innovative technology, including social search tools that enable collaboration throughout the enterprise, is delivered with a focus on end-user satisfaction and on application control through easy-to-use interfaces, flexible security management and a modern architecture that enables quick deployment. Vivisimo products are available for standalone search applications or as OEM versions embedded as critical search technology within partner applications and solutions. Vivisimo serves its global clients from headquarters in Pittsburgh, USA, and partners throughout the world. Visit Vivisimo.com and our [Search Done Right™] blog.
