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Announcing the Release of the New Version of iHealthSearch™, the Smart Search Engine for Healthcare IT

02/17/2010

NORTHBROOK, IL (February 17, 2010) - Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO®) the leader in clinical interface terminology, announced today the release of the 2010 version of iHealthSearch™, the intelligent search engine for use in hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems. The new iHealthSearch will be unveiled at HIMSS 2010, the annual conference and exhibition of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, being held in Atlanta, Georgia from February 28 - March 4, 2010.

iHealthSearch is an intelligent search portal for healthcare providers that is designed to work in electronic health record systems. It constructs the best search methods to quickly find the most relevant information from only the most trusted health content sources. Hosted by IMO, it can be embedded into an EHR or accessed through a web portal.

"iHealthSearch gives clinicians the answers they need from sources they trust and in their preferred order," says Dr, Frank Naeymi-Rad, IMO's Chief Executive Officer. "IMO is continually revising the search to provide the most relevant and personalized results. As new content is introduced, iHealthSearch users automatically benefit from new interfaces that can be modified to meet an organization's requirements. In addition, we also allow local trusted content to be accessed within the iHealthSearch results." David Haines, IMO's iHealthSearch product manager adds, "IMO's clinical interface terminology products are the key building blocks of the complex iHealthSearch search engine, making iHealthSearch the most sophisticated medical search tool at the point-of-care on the market today."

iHealthSearch is the only search engine that understands clinical intent. The system uses IMO's clinical interface terminology products to translate the clinician's information request into standard terminologies, codesets, and indexing terms such as ICD-9-CM, ICD-P, SNOMED CT®, RxNorm, MeSH, and UMLS to increase the range and effectiveness of searches without overwhelming the clinician with irrelevant answers.

"Compared to other search tools, especially consumer web search engines, iHealthSearch delivers demonstrably superior results from the most respected clinical sites, peer-reviewed medical journals, subscription content, and internal policy and procedures documents," says Amy Y. Wang, MD, IMO's Chief Medical Officer. "This saves time and effort, helping our clinicians find the answers they need to deliver high-quality patient care based on the latest clinical evidence and guidelines."


IMO is the market leader in clinical interface terminology. We deliver provider-friendly medical terms to document the correct diagnoses and procedures within the EHR. These terms replace the hard-to-use administrative codesets such as ICD-9-CM, resulting in improved patient problem lists with more specific diagnoses, more meaningful documentation, improved charge capture, and more accurate billing. iHealthSearch takes this technology to the next level by delivering clinically relevant, trusted referential content at the point of care. IMO is a strategic partner with major content providers and EHR developers. For more information, please visit us at HIMSS 2010 Booth 7367 or call Dennis Carson at 847-272-1242.