NHS - National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence
Objective:
To create a comprehensive, searchable online evidence base for health and social care professionals including clinicians, pharmacists, public health and special care staff, commissioners, service managers, information specialists and the UK public.
Technical Solution
FAST Enterprise Search Platform®
Delivering Innovation - NHS Evidence brings hundreds of diverse, dynamic third party data sources and over 140,000 documents together into a single search interface for the first time.
Selective Aggregation of Content - Configurable indexing enables discerning aggregation of content to match agreed user requirements.
Search Relevancy - Flexible ranking model and the use of navigators help to filter, prioritise and add value to search results.
Rapid Implementation - project was completed on time and to budget despite a development timeframe of just four months.
"Dr Bill Crounse MD, senior director, worldwide health for Microsoft, talks about doctors’ reliance on relevant and accurate information to deliver the best patient care. He speaks to Andrew Fenton, CIO of NICE (the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence), who makes the case for NHS Evidence, the medical search engine implemented by Mongoose using Microsoft’s FAST search platform."
