About
EMERSE (Electronic Medical Record Search Engine) was designed to help everyday users work with the free text documents (i.e., clinical notes) in medical records. It's been engineered to be fast, powerful and, above all, easy to use. EMERSE has been supporting users since 2005 with use cases ranging from operational to research data needs. EMERSE can handle free text data from any type of medical record system — if you can get the data out of your EHR, there should be a way to get it into EMERSE.
EMERSE is similar to natural language processing (NLP), but it's actually an information retrieval tool. That means it has a lot of similarities with software users are already familiar with including Google. Another advantage of EMERSE over traditional NLP is how simple it is to use, and how little effort is required to get started with it.
EMERSE is open source, free to use, and is accessible from any modern web browser, but requires a dedicated clinical IT team to install and securely manage the system.
EMERSE helps real people get real work done. Check out all of our materials online to learn more or contact us for additional information.
It's been estimated that 80% of all data in the EHR are found within the free text
Search is an effective way to fulfill many kinds of use cases requiring EHR data
EMERSE is mature, proven technology with a long track record of success
EMERSE has high satisfaction among users
EMERSE can handle free text data from all types of medical specialties and domains
EMERSE is vendor agnostic and can work with data from any kind of EHR
EMERSE provides Augmented Intelligence, to help you get your work done better and more efficiently
Security is enhanced because the data are centrally stored and managed
EMERSE is built on top of the highly popular Solr search technology
Searches with EMERSE are super fast
EMERSE has been used in hundreds of research studies
EMERSE helps make research more reproducible
The flexibility of EMERSE provides multiple advantages to teams engaged in research
EMERSE has been used to support many tasks for hospital operations
Researchers using EMERSE have published some of the largest studies in their fields