Cochrane PICO Annotator and PICOfinder: Using Semantically-enabled Evidence to Find What Works in Health Care

This software demo will show the functionality of Cochrane's PICO Annotator tool, which was developed for annotating evidence in clinical trial reports and systematic reviews, and the Cochrane PICOfinder, a discovery and visualisation tool for filtering evidence and underlying data by PICO criteria. Both tools are part of the Cochrane Collaboration’s Linked Data Platform. Details about the underlying model, technology, and software design will be discussed together with plans for the future development and deployment of these tools across Cochrane and out into the domain of clinical guidelines, electronic and clinical decision support systems, and policy and guideline development. Lessons learned from the implementation of the OHDSI clinical terminology and ontology mappings (http://www.ohdsi.org/) of SNOMED CT, RxNorm, WHO ATC, MedDRA, and other vocabularies will also be briefly shared.