iMedix hires expert for its medical search engine
iMedix, a community-powered health search engine, announced today that Prof. Yuval Shahar will lead its medical search technology efforts.
Prof. Shahar is the head of the Medical Informatics Research Center at Ben Gurion University, and has more than 20 years of experience in advanced health- information retrieval and application of artificial intelligence technologies to the health-care domain.
“We are delighted to have a world-class scientist devote his time, knowledge and expertise to the rapid development of our health search technology.” said Amir Leitersdorf, CEO and co-founder of iMedix.
“In the past year iMedix has witnessed an incremental improvement in the relevance of search results based on exploiting the availability of medical knowledge-representation technology, combined with the use of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms. I am confident in our ability to surpass other medical search engines on the web today,” said Prof. Shahar. Prof. Shahar holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Medical information Sciences, an M.Sc. in computer science from Yale University and a M.D. degree from the Hebrew University.
iMedix was recently chosen as The Best New Start-up of 2007 in a worldwide competition in San Francisco. The site allows consumers to benefit from the online research conducted by thousands of others with similar health conditions or interests. Individuals can sign-up for free by visiting iMedix.
