ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR A SOCIAL -NETWORK WEB PORTAL APPLIED TO THE SECTOR OF HEALTH AND HEALTH INFORMATION

摘要

A system for retrieving health-related information includes at least one processor coupled to memory; a back-end subsystem for storing in the memory, illness and health-related information imported from external data-base sources. An information retrieval program stored in the memory is executable by the processor to search the external data-base sources for illness and health-related terms and definitions; organize the illness and health-related information in an internal data-base stored in the memory by categories according to illness names, and include an aggregation of synonyms of scientific and unofficial terms identifying the illness names in different languages; search in each category for health-related articles in at least one predetermined international scientific data-base; and populate the internal data-base with information related to the articles. A front-end subsystem includes a search engine for searching the internal data-base for illness names; and an illness-page module for displaying the results including illness and health-related information and articles.