---
_id: '1148'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The individual search for information about physicians on Web 2.0 platforms
can affect almost all aspects of our lives. People can directly access physician
rating websites via web browsers or use any search engine to find physician reviews
and ratings filtered by location resp. specialty. However, sometimes keyword search
does not meet user needs because of the disagreement of users’ common terms queries
for symptoms and the widespread medical terminology. In this paper, we present
the prototype of a specialised search engine that overcomes this by indexing user-generated
content (i.e., review texts) for physician discovery and provides automatic suggestions
as well as an appropriate visualisation. On the one hand, we consider the available
numeric physician ratings as sorting criterion for the ranking of query results.
Furthermore, we extended existing ranking algorithms with respect to domain-specific
types and physicians ratings on the other hand. We gathered more than 860,000
review texts and collected more than 213,000 physician records. A random test
shows that about 19.7% of 5,100 different words in total are health- related and
partly belong to consumer health vocabularies. Our evaluation results show that
the query results fit user's particular health issues when seeking for physicians.
author:
- first_name: Frederik Simon
full_name: Bäumer, Frederik Simon
id: '38837'
last_name: Bäumer
- first_name: Markus
full_name: Dollmann, Markus
id: '27578'
last_name: Dollmann
- first_name: Michaela
full_name: Geierhos, Michaela
id: '42496'
last_name: Geierhos
orcid: 0000-0002-8180-5606
citation:
ama: 'Bäumer FS, Dollmann M, Geierhos M. Find a Physician by Matching Medical Needs
described in your Own Words. In: Shakshuki EM, ed. The 6th International Conference
on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International
Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies
in Healthcare (ICTH-2015) / Affiliated Workshops. Vol 63. Procedia Computer
Science. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier; 2015:417-424. doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.362'
apa: 'Bäumer, F. S., Dollmann, M., & Geierhos, M. (2015). Find a Physician by
Matching Medical Needs described in your Own Words. In E. M. Shakshuki (Ed.),
The 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive
Networks (EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International Conference on Current and Future
Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2015)
/ Affiliated Workshops (Vol. 63, pp. 417–424). Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.362'
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Bäumer_Dollmann_Geierhos_2015, place={Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
series={Procedia Computer Science}, title={Find a Physician by Matching Medical
Needs described in your Own Words}, volume={63}, DOI={10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.362},
booktitle={The 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and
Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International Conference on Current
and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare
(ICTH-2015) / Affiliated Workshops}, publisher={Elsevier}, author={Bäumer, Frederik
Simon and Dollmann, Markus and Geierhos, Michaela}, editor={Shakshuki, Elhadi
M.Editor}, year={2015}, pages={417–424}, collection={Procedia Computer Science}
}'
chicago: 'Bäumer, Frederik Simon, Markus Dollmann, and Michaela Geierhos. “Find
a Physician by Matching Medical Needs Described in Your Own Words.” In The
6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks
(EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of
Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2015) / Affiliated
Workshops, edited by Elhadi M. Shakshuki, 63:417–24. Procedia Computer Science.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.362.'
ieee: F. S. Bäumer, M. Dollmann, and M. Geierhos, “Find a Physician by Matching
Medical Needs described in your Own Words,” in The 6th International Conference
on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International
Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies
in Healthcare (ICTH-2015) / Affiliated Workshops, Berlin, Germany, 2015, vol.
63, pp. 417–424.
mla: Bäumer, Frederik Simon, et al. “Find a Physician by Matching Medical Needs
Described in Your Own Words.” The 6th International Conference on Emerging
Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International
Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies
in Healthcare (ICTH-2015) / Affiliated Workshops, edited by Elhadi M. Shakshuki,
vol. 63, Elsevier, 2015, pp. 417–24, doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.362.
short: 'F.S. Bäumer, M. Dollmann, M. Geierhos, in: E.M. Shakshuki (Ed.), The 6th
International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks
(EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of
Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2015) / Affiliated
Workshops, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015, pp. 417–424.'
conference:
end_date: 2015-09-30
location: Berlin, Germany
name: 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and
Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2015)
start_date: 2015-09-27
date_created: 2018-01-31T11:49:59Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:01Z
department:
- _id: '36'
- _id: '1'
- _id: '579'
doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.362
editor:
- first_name: Elhadi M.
full_name: Shakshuki, Elhadi M.
last_name: Shakshuki
intvolume: ' 63'
keyword:
- Physician Discovery
- Consumer Health Vocabulary
- Common Terms Query
language:
- iso: eng
page: 417-424
place: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
publication: The 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive
Networks (EUSPN 2015) / The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends
of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2015) / Affiliated
Workshops
publication_identifier:
issn:
- '18770509'
publication_status: published
publisher: Elsevier
quality_controlled: '1'
series_title: Procedia Computer Science
status: public
title: Find a Physician by Matching Medical Needs described in your Own Words
type: conference
user_id: '42496'
volume: 63
year: '2015'
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