Kainos, a digital technology solution company based in the U.K., has added smart indexing and extended search capabilities to its Evolve electronic medical record (EMR) platform.
Using the new smart indexing capabilities, Evolve users can search through EMRs, patient case notes from legacy solutions, general practitioner correspondence and lab results to assemble details of a patient’s comprehensive medical history.
Kainos created smart indexing to give clinicians the tools to predict a patient’s potential emerging conditions before they happen. Evolve is available as a desktop solution and also as an iPad app.
Smart indexing is only the beginning of how Kainos hopes to change the future of data. Upcoming advances, according to head of Evolve Nigel Hutchinson, will include context-aware search capabilities and the addition of demographic data.
“The technology will be aware of the user, too,” Hutchinson explained, “able to serve up information that is tailored to the interests of a cardiologist, for example – in the same way that Amazon delivers personalized information to online shoppers.”
Context-aware search is something that Google introduced with Knowledge Graph. Instead of just looking for sites that match search query keywords, context-aware search tries to deliver results based on the user’s intent.
For example, a Google search for the question “How do you diagnose diabetes?” immediately pulls up snippets from three different sources including NIH.gov, Diabetes.org and MayoClinic.com. The snippets are contained in a box before the main search results to give the searcher an idea of where to find the best information very quickly.
Hutchinson notes how context-aware search recognizes the relationship between different subject areas. “Powerful new search capabilities will be able to pick out patterns in data about an individual or a group of patients. The search engine recognizes the link between endocrinology and diabetes, for example, so it knows what to look for and what to highlight.”
Kainos plans to roll out its complete analytics capabilities over the next 18 to 24 months. The company is currently showcasing Evolve at eHI Live at Birmingham NEC.
