Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent (Patent Number 8,914,395) for its 'Search In Your Own Language' technology. The proprietary local-language search capabilities in UpToDate, the company's evidence-based, clinical decision support resource, enable users to pose clinical questions in their native language.
Initially released in 2013, the patented technology at the heart of Search In Your Own Language was designed to be efficient, scalable, and highly accurate, continuously improving search results for users over time. The robust search function streamlines queries for clinical information and graded recommendations by leveraging an advanced translation system for search terms in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. In addition, an intuitive auto-complete feature also predicts words or phrases in the clinician's native language.
Search In Your Own Language complements other multi-lingual functions to improve ease-of-use overall for clinicians around the world. For instance, doctors can also customise their UpToDate navigation interface to display in their preferred local languages. Clinicians can also rate translations of search terms and submit suggestions for improvements.
