YOUR GO-TO INTELLIGENCE RESOURCE FOR THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

Unbound Medicine®, a provider of knowledge management solutions for healthcare, has announced a major upgrade to their end-to-end digital publishing platform. To enhance clinical decision support capabilities for professional societies and healthcare institutions, Unbound has developed Unbound Intelligence™ (UBI), exclusive artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to help clinicians keep up to date with current research, as well as discover and fill knowledge gaps.

Unbound Intelligence quickly analyzes large volumes of data and recommends options for the next steps in patient management. While clinicians answer questions or research areas of interest on the Unbound Platform, UBI instantly filters through available resources, including the most up-to-date primary literature, to suggest closely related topics and relevant, recently published journal articles. This allows clinicians to quickly expand their reach and discover evidence-based guidance that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.

Unbound Intelligence has also been deeply integrated into Unbound’s robust Continuing Medical Education (CME) module. To complement user-initiated browsing and searching for relevant CME, UBI continuously recommends CME opportunities in the form of courses and questions that are closely related to the current inquiry. In addition, UBI generates personalised CME activities based on knowledge gaps revealed from incorrect answers or found commonly in the larger professional community. Together these capabilities direct user attention to learning opportunities with a high impact on clinician knowledge and patient care.

The first medical association to adopt Unbound Intelligence was the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA). In 2017 APSA selected Unbound’s end-to-end digital publishing platform to develop and power its marquee digital resource, the APSA Pediatric Surgery Library (PSL). Today, the key components of the PSL—the Pediatric Surgery Not a Textbook (NaT), ExPERT CME with spaced learning, and APSA toolkits and policies—have all been enhanced with UBI. Now, pediatric surgeons can consult a PSL dashboard that suggests personalised NaT topics and journal articles as well as CME courses and questions to fill knowledge gaps.