Medstory: Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been testing out a new search engine for health and medicine called Medstory. It’s considered “intelligent” because it uses artificial intelligence algorithms to find and organize search results.

Medstory is definitely a different beast than Google. If you do a search on stomach cancer, for example, you get a section at the top above the search results with lists for Conditions, Personal Health, Procedures, etc. Clicking on the Research tab will get you more info including Clinical Studies and… (wait for the drumroll)

A LIST OF GENES!!

Ok, maybe I’m the only one that would get excited about that. The CDH1 gene tops the list and with a simple click on that keyword, you can get a more focused result for stomach cancer AND CDH1.

Anyway, I just think it’s fun to try new things and Medstory is definitely going to be one of my primary search engines now for information related to diseases and genes. There’s much more to Medstory than I’ve described here. Medstory’s founder and CEO, Dr. Alain Rappaport, will also be participating in the Genetics and Health interview series.

PS I am in no way affiliated with Medstory. The only connection I have with them is through a friend of my sister’s who works there. And I’m not even really sure I could pick him out of a line-up. Sorry, Leo!!