Specialty clinical references

Overview

The Thieme Reference Lookup Expert provides access to specialty-specific clinical knowledge from Thieme’s curated medical resources. It’s especially valuable in domains like surgery, radiology, orthopedics, and neurology—where standard references often fall short on procedural detail or subspecialty depth.

This Expert enables agents to surface clinically vetted definitions, procedural explanations, and specialty-specific context directly within documentation, education, or decision-support workflows.

How it works

When invoked, the Expert queries Thieme’s structured content repository to retrieve relevant entries based on clinical intent or natural language prompts. It’s often paired with other Experts—like the Interaction or Coding Expert—to contextualize findings or explain complex documentation elements.

For example, when a surgical note includes a rare procedure, the Expert can provide a brief definition or link to operative details for review, learning, or compliance purposes.

Common use cases

• Support surgical documentation agents with structured procedural context
• Enable clinicians to quickly reference unfamiliar terminology in subspecialty workflows
• Enrich assistant tools with domain-specific knowledge and diagrams
• Help educational agents provide concise, reliable background during training
  

Configure

Access to the Thieme Reference Lookup Expert requires a valid Thieme subscription and authorized API credentials. Once connected, usage can be scoped by specialty, use case, or user role, with routing rules enforced via the Governance Layer. Responses can be embedded in clinical interfaces or surfaced via conversational prompts.