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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Techniques for an integrated system that may access various medical information databases to retrieve and analyze data for user-related purposes, patient-related purposes, as well as to identify and discover particular medical care needs or relationships between data to enhance diagnosis, treatment, institutional performance, and so forth. Includes searching and analyzing medical data based on a search parameter defining a criteria. The system includes data processing system that takes inputs from a user or initiates automatically, extracts information (crawls) from databases, and processes/ presents them for various benefits, including that of a medical practitioner.