MedIEQ Tools
| The Assisting QUality Assessment (AQUA) system |
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By analyzing the two main approaches of medical quality labeling (filtering portals and third party accreditation), we have identified the following key tasks, followed entirely or partially by most labeling agencies:
- Identification of new web resources: this could happen either by active web searching or by voluntary application from the information provider.
- Labeling of the web resources: this could be done with the purpose of awarding an accreditation seal or in order to classify and index the web resources in a filtering portal.
- Re-reviewing or monitoring the labeled web resources: this step is necessary to identify changes or updates in the resources as well as broken links and to verify if a resource still deserves to be awarded an accreditation seal.
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As a result, the AQUA system was designed to support the main tasks of the web content accreditation process, that is:
- Identification of unlabeled resources having health-related content
- Visit and review of the identified resources
- Generation of content labels for the reviewed resources
- Monitoring the labeled resources
AQUA incorporates several subsystems and functionalities for the labeling expert, as presented in the above figure:
- The Web Content Collection (WCC) component identifies, classifies and collects online content relative to the labeling criteria
- The Information Extraction Toolkit (IET) analyses the web content collected by WCC and extracts attributes for the content labels
- The Label Management (LAM) component generates, validates, modifies and compares the content labels
- The Multilingual Resources Management (MRM) subsystem gives access to health-related multilingual resources
- The Monitor-Update-Alert (MUA) tool handles the configuration of monitoring tasks, database updates, and alerts to labeling experts
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| AQUA currently supports eight European languages (English, Spanish, German, Finnish, Czech, Greek, Catalan and Swedish), as well as, the full set of MedIEQ Labeling Criteria . |
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Access to AQUA [*Only to registered users]
* For AQUA registrations, please contact us
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| Download the MedIEQ AQUA User Manual |
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