ScanMedicine: An online search system for medical innovation.

Abstract

ScanMedicine is a novel searching system dedicated to providing health care professionals, patients, carers, the public, decision- and policy-makers, and researchers with open access to the development pipeline underpinning health technology innovations. In the first phase of developing ScanMedicine, we have focused on capturing and consolidating clinical trial records hosted on national and international clinical trials registries and medical device approval data from the FDA. ScanMedicine has