The publication discloses a one-stop search and download site that allows access to multiple Critically Acclaimed Topics (CAT) libraries. A physician can use this to do a keyword search and locate releveant articles which may help the physician to provide evidence-based medicine. A Web-based application: "the CAT Crawler" recieves keywords entered by the physician and provides adequate access to available appraised topics on the Internet.

This paper describes a spiding (crawling) algorithm that is used for retrieving relevant medical information from online medical databases including evidence based medical databases based on keywords and automatically generated thesaurus.

This patent discloses a system for syndicating and managing structured and unstructured health care data. The data is available in various healthcare pools, which may be located in different geographies.This data is used to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare.

This reference describes a system, method and computer executable program for providing medical procedure recommendations based on clinical and non-clinical data present in an integrated knowledge database. This data can be derived from the database with the help of queries initiated by users.

The reference describes techniques which allow a healthcare provider to search specified resources and get summarized useful results. The invention claimed in the reference allows the search using particular criteria as well as define the scope of the search from a number of (evidence) resources. The invention uses a spider (crawler) to gather information from various resources. In one of the embodiments, the resources include clinical decision support tools which provide diagnostic, therapeutic or specific recommendations to the healthcare provider.

A web-based application, namely the CAT Crawler, was developed by Singapore's Bioinformatics Institute to allow physicians to adequately access available appraised topics on the Internet.