The paper ‘Medical information retrieval: introduction to the special issue’ by Lorraine Goeuriot, Gareth J.F. jones, Liadh Kelly,\u00a0Henning M\u00fcller<\/a>\u00a0and Justin Zobel is now available online:\u00a0http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10791-015-9277-8?wt_mc=internal.event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n “Medical information search refers to methodologies and technologies that seek to improve access to medical information archives via a process of information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially accessible from many sources including the general web, social media, journal articles, and hospital records. Health-related content is one of the most searched-for topics on the internet, and as such this is an important domain for IR research. Medical information is of interest to a wide variety of users, including patients and their families, researchers, general practitioners and clinicians, and practitioners with specific expertise such as radiologists…”<\/p>\n <\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The paper ‘Medical information retrieval: introduction to the special issue’ by Lorraine Goeuriot, Gareth J.F. jones, Liadh Kelly,\u00a0Henning M\u00fcller\u00a0and Justin Zobel is now available online:\u00a0http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10791-015-9277-8?wt_mc=internal.event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst\u00a0 “Medical information search refers to methodologies and technologies that seek to improve access to medical information archives via a process of information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially accessible … <\/p>\n