Analysis of information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education.

Objective: To examine the information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education (SHINE), an integrated information retrieval (IR) system.

Methods: A subset of queries from the SHINE log were categorized into one or more of 33 categories.

Results: Drugs and infectious disease accounted for 25% of categorizations, and otherwise the distribution of categorizations was quite broad.

The Stanford Health Information Network for Education: integrated information for decision making and learning.

Although multiple decision support systems have been built for physicians, efficient delivery of valid and complete medical knowledge remains an elusive goal. In this paper we describe a new project, the Stanford Health Information Network for Education (SHINE). SHINE unifies core medical resources in an intuitive interface to support clinical decision making.