Direct-To-Consumer Internet Search Firm Seeks To Centralize U.S. Health Information

June 16, 2010 / Melody Smith /

June 16, 2010 – Resounding Health engineers have combined over 2 million pages of health information found on “dot.gov” sites into a single healthcare database. 

PRWeb highlighted this news in their article, “Resounding Health Unites Balkanized US Government Health Information.” Agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA.gov), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.gov), the National Institutes of Health (NIH.gov) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA.gov) each publish their own consumer health information. Gathering information from these sites and more, each with different user interface designs, terminology, search functions and site maps, Resounding Health has now combined all of this information into a single knowledge base and organized it using their proprietary Medical Ontology Engine. Users will not only be able to easily search this knowledge base, but create customized remixes of the information for their own unique needs.

Eliminating repetition and solving discrepancies is a worthy goal. But we are talking medical information, so accuracy is of the utmost importance.

Melody K. Smith 

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Mary Garcia on June 16, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    This looks like a great resource. In addition to gathering information from multiple sources (government here), it needs to be accessible – with good navigation, presentation, attribution. Revolution Health did similar by aggregating information from popular publications, feels like an “entry site” to Resounding Health’s. NLM and Pubmed have always been good resources, but it’s nice to see a user “friendlier” offering.