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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2013
Ims Health Incorporated, Danbury, CT (US);
Sivakumar Nadarajah, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Sanmugam Aravinthan, Lake Hiawatha, NJ (US);
IMS Health Incorporated, Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for ranking healthcare professionals, including: receiving healthcare information submitted by a user; launching search delegators to search respective channels of social media based on the healthcare information; receiving meta search records from the search delegators; scoring the meta search records based on the healthcare information as well as the channel of social media where the meta search record was found; filtering the meta search records based on the corresponding scores; and providing the filtered meta search records to the user.