Medical texts (reports, articles, etc.) are usually written by professionals (physicians, medical researchers, etc.) who use their own language and communication style. On the other hand, these texts are often read by health consumers who do not have the same skills and vocabularies of the experts.

We have built a system, a SImplifier of Medical texts for Patients and Less Experts (SIMPLE), that processes online medical documents and provides users with consumer terms and explanations. By doing so, the user will have everything at hand by dealing with a single document that contains all the useful information for understanding and deciding on the subject.

This project began in 2015 in collaboration with the University of Palermo and the Italian National Council of Research. SIMPLE was funded under Italian ‘Smart Health’ Project (PON04a2_C), carried out within the Smart Cities Program 2007–2013; and Italian ‘ADAPT – Accessible Data for Accessible Proto-Types in Social Sector’ Project (PON Smart Cities SCN_00447).