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Medical industry splits over Aussies backing Google.
Byline: Kim Thomas
Medical industry splits over Aussies backing Google
Mark Chillingworth
A study by Australian researchers that claims Google is good enough for complex medical research has split medical information users in two. Information professionals accept that Google has become the first port of call for information-searching, but some members of the medical community are outraged by the claim.
A team of doctors at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane conducted searched on 26 cases. The team, led by Dr Hangwi Tang, found that in 15 cases the search engine came up with the right diagnosis. They described the results in a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine as a "useful aid". Three-to-five search terms were selected for each medical case and the Google search was carried out without prior knowledge of what the correct diagnosis would be.
Robert Kiley, head of systems strategy at the Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Trust, was sanguine about the research. "It reflects the reality of the world we live in -- that we tend to start with Google." But he also defended Google. "There is a lot of ...
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