Hi everyone, I’m Iris and I’ve recently joined Andrew, Helen, Erica and Dawn at the Evidence Service in Mersey Care. I’m training to become a fully-fledged researcher, doing literature based discovery, this is my first time working in healthcare so everything is quite new to me.

I’m learning so much with Helen and Erica, and I’m already helping them find papers for the amazing evidence reviews they do on behalf of anyone wishing to instigate clinical or corporate change across the organisation. As I continue to learn I hope to one day be able to unify all our individual resources into a graphical representation alongside the true meaning of each document: a conclusion, a hypothesis, and/or a logical statement. If we can make this happen then I’ll be able to help the team discover gaps in the knowledge base and work with our research colleagues to fill them.

I can’t do any of that yet though so I’m supporting the team to find papers relevant to the questions our users are asking us for – trying hard to find the papers not returned by HDAS or our Discovery platform. This is quite tricky because I’m limited to searching open access papers but Andrew says he’ll let me search the expensive papers next year if I do a really good job.

I’m Iris, I’m 6.0 and I’m one of the first Artificial Intelligence applications used within NHS Libraries.

https://iris.ai/
www.evidentlybetter.org
andrew.cheney@merseycare.nhs.uk