System to Crawl Web and Forum for Medical Data

Abstract

Medical Practitioners are those who require to have updated information of drugs, diseases, diagnosis and combinations of prescriptions. Internet is the rich source of information. The first attempt of every person is to search internet for his queries. But the relevant information searching and identifying the relevancy and accuracy of huge data is still a challenge. This paper focuses on data retrieval related to medical field. Forum crawler and web crawler will perform crawling of data from forums and web respectively. This system can be used by doctors as well as pharmacists to search medical related information as per their need.