Patented Search Tool Identifies Top Experts in 26,000 Medical Topics

BALTIMORE - Oct. 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Today Expertscape officially releases http://www.expertscape.com  a free web-based search tool for consumers that identifies and ranks the top experts for any medical problem. Expertscape enables any consumer to quickly and easily find the specialists and institutions -- locally and globally -- who have the highest level of expertise applicable to the consumer’s specific, individualized medical condition.

Expertscape solves a challenging problem that broad tools, like board certification, and subjective tools, like surveys or commercial guides, cannot hope to solve: finding experts who specialize in a single disease or condition. Until now, this has been essentially impossible for both consumers and physicians.  Today, Expertscape makes finding that informed second opinion free and easy.

Expertscape uses patented, data-driven algorithms to search for and identify the most knowledgeable doctors, clinicians, and researchers across more than 26,000 specific topics.  It then stratifies its results by degree of demonstrated expertise and by geography.  The healthcare consumer can then quickly navigate to peer-reviewed experts within their travel area knowledgeable in the science, therapies, and complications specific to that condition. Once an appropriate specialist has been selected, Expertscape provides information on how to contact that institution or individual.

“The inspiration for Expertscape came from my own struggle finding a Parkinson disease expert in Chicago, where my uncle lived.  It’s a common problem.  A loved one is suddenly diagnosed with a serious medical condition. How do you find the right person or the right institution for a second opinion or to take over care?” said Dr. John Sotos, founder of Expertscape. “With this search tool, anyone can quickly find, study, and contact the most experienced and knowledgeable experts in their area of concern. That self-empowerment can be huge, both in time saved and in reducing anxiety.”

In the weeks ahead, Expertscape will begin to highlight and profile institutions and individuals that reflect the best medical and scientific expertise the international community has to offer. To see those rankings, or to investigate any medical topic of interest, visit http://www.expertscape.com.

http://www.expertscape.com is a medical search and content service that enables healthcare consumers to easily identify and research medical experts across over 26,000 different topics by condition, expertise, and location. Expertscape.com uses a multi-dimensional expert-rank algorithm to quantify biomedical expertise, combined with a simple, intuitive web-based application to provide a coherent, objective way to find the best institutions and individual experts when and where they are needed.