Medical Knowledge Base - Infermedica
Physicians’ knowledge, digitized
We know that access to verified medical information is key to improving how people across the world use medical services. Find out more about our physician-led database of medical concepts here.
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Medical knowledge and data
Creating content
It all starts with data. We want our database to resemble the knowledge and processes that physicians use daily. That is why our medical team built a complex network of interlinked medical concepts. This framework allows us to assess patient's symptoms in a similar way to doctors, by simultaneously analyzing symptoms, conditions, and risk factors.
Probabilistic modeling
Expert medical knowledge is used by our inference algorithms to process patients' data and draw conclusions on their health. It is also used as a part of the feedback loop to continuously improve our solutions over time. With care and precision, our team links medical content with our inference engine to guide millions of patients to the right level of care.
155,000+ hours of physician's work
3000+ medical concepts developed
36 medical experts engaged
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Our medical content has been growing over the years. We began with the most frequent everyday diseases like the common cold or migraines. Later on, we expanded our base with skin conditions, mental health issues, and surgical complications. Lately, we have focused on the analysis of injuries and, more recently, pediatric conditions.
Jakub Jaszczak
Medical Doctor & Product Manager at Infermedica
A team of seasoned experts
The medical content team consists of experts representing different medical specializations and levels of seniority. They work collaboratively, building our content with a comprehensive approach to patient health.
Evidence-based sources
We currently use over 12,000 unique sources from over 770 domains, including well-established journals, guidelines, and publications from international health organizations (WHO, CDC) and numerous medical papers with high impact factors.
Clinical validation
We established a content development process that prevents errors and maintains the highest quality of publication standards. This process includes eliciting expert knowledge, clinical validation, acceptance tests, technical reviews, and tests.
Continuous improvement
Content validation continues even after information is made available to our users. Our physicians collect feedback and keep our database up-to-date with the latest research. Our physicians also share their experience of millions of real-life cases, which helps us to improve our engine’s accuracy.
A transparent process
Transparency is fundamental to Infermedica. That is why we have open access to our content creation procedures and acceptance test cases.
Our medical leaders
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Irv Loh
Chief Medical Officer
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Mateusz Palczewski
Head of Clinical Validation
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Jakub Jaszczak
Medical Product Manager
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Anna Nowicka
Head of Medical Content (Adults)
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Katarzyna Trybucka
Medical Consultant
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Filip Banaszak
Head of Medical Content (Pediatrics)
Expert medical knowledge available to all
Technology for the whole family
Infermedica’s medical knowledge base is oriented toward both adult and pediatric users. It differentiates disease symptoms based on the patient's age. Healthcare organizations can use it to provide safe, and precise, healthcare recommendations to customers and their loved ones.
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Medical content in 26 languages
Access to medical knowledge should be borderless. That is why we continuously work with physicians and communication experts from various continents who help us translate and adjust our medical knowledge base. We include local specifics and common names of medical terms. So far, we have 26 languages and the capability to add even more.
Simple words for complex medical terms
Clear communication between patients and physicians is key to a good therapeutic relationship. And this is no different for digital tools. That is why all medical terms are displayed with their common names, which are often more familiar to patients. The accuracy of these terms is ensured by our international group of medical translators and physicians.
Leveraging our Medical Knowledge Base
Incorporate our top-notch inference engine and its vast medical knowledge into your businesses’ virtual healthcare product. Check out our ready-to-use features or leverage the flexible Infermedica API. Use it freely to build custom solutions, create multiple interfaces, scale up, or simply integrate it with your existing systems.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the sources of your medical data? We rely on respected, proven, and reliable sources, such as well-established medical journals (British Medical Journal Best Practice, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, ClinicalKey Medical Education, UpToDate), guidelines, and publications from specialized agencies and organizations operating globally (WHO, CDC) as well as numerous medical papers with a high impact factor (NEJM, The Lancet).
How many conditions and symptoms are in your database? The amount of medical content in our database is constantly growing. So far, we have 900+ conditions, 1800+ symptoms, and 340+ risk factors.
Where can I find the complete list of symptoms and conditions available? To see the complete list of symptoms and conditions available in our medical database, please visit the Developer's Portal.
How do you validate your Medical Knowledge Base? Infermedica’s database is tested by carrying out assessments on thousands of well-documented clinical cases. These are carefully curated by our Medical Team and undergo regular evaluation following rigorous and well-established procedures.
Infermedica’s solutions are also evaluated by external organizations to ensure safety and accuracy. For more evidence on the quality of Infermedica’s platform, read these peer-reviewed studies.