21 May 2009
Award-winning Isabel Diagnosis Checklist
now Interfaced with SystmOne
Following the Kings Fund’s recent announcement of an inquiry into the quality of GP Services with a particular focus on diagnosis and referrals, TPP has made an interface available between clinical system, SystmOne, and the award-winning Isabel Diagnosis Checklist system.
By providing a quick and easy way of accessing Isabel through SystmOne, clinicians now have sophisticated diagnosis decision support available instantly from right within the clinical workflow and therefore possible during a consultation. When the clinician performs a diagnosis search, the patient's age, sex and pregnancy status are automatically passed to Isabel from SystmOne, along with the clinician's search term. The Isabel website opens and displays a list of likely diagnoses.
Covering almost 11,000 diseases and 4,500 drugs, the web-based Isabel Diagnostic Checklist has been designed to assist clinicians with early diagnosis and referral quality by providing an instant, patient-specific list of likely diagnoses for a given set of signs and symptoms. Each diagnosis is linked to up-to-the-minute clinical knowledge from medical textbooks, journals and web resources to aid further consideration.
Dr John Parry, TPP's Clinical Director, said: “TPP is very pleased to be the first in the UK to offer the Isabel integration with a clinical system. The evidence for the need for this sort of tool is well established, and I particularly welcome the training aspects of Isabel and the support it provides for both less experienced and more senior clinicians, whose educational needs are often different. The integration with SystmOne is timely as it will provide additional help in avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions by reducing diagnostic uncertainty."
"Isabel software provides a comprehensive and readily accessible library of information on your desktop. It offers the doctor of a range of diagnoses that may link disparate signs and symptoms to prompt relevant investigations” said Dr Phillip Ridsdill Smith from Haslemere Health Centre which recently trialled the Isabel software.
For more information about Isabel Healthcare, go to www.isabelhealthcare.com where you can also take a 'Free Trial', or contact Jason Maude by emailing jason.maude@isabelhealthcare.com
