Farhan Ahmad, MBA CTO & Chief of Staff Our customers find increasing value as we continue to add more clinical decision support and shared decision-making tools to the HealthDecision platform. In addition to the core guidelines that our tools support, we also offer services to customize and add institution-specific guidelines and [...]
As a cardiology fellow, I remember reading a 1995 study1 testing the ability of primary care clinicians to predict cardiovascular risk. The conclusion was that clinicians did a poor job estimating absolute risk, although they made better estimates of the relative risk between patients. Now in 2018, a new study2 tested clinician’s ability to estimate [...]
Jon Keevil, MDCEO and Founder, HealthDecision Clinical decision support (CDS) takes on many forms. These range from the simple (showing a pick list of medication doses to avoid the error of prescribing simvastatin 25 mg) to the sublime (artificial intelligence systems that can read x-rays and pathology slides) and everything in between. Sometimes, [...]
Jon Keevil, MDCEO and Founder, HealthDecision In 2011, the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) gave hope that a screening test could make a major impact on a cancer whose mortality is typically high. In 2014, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that when patients met appropriate clinical criteria, it was reasonable to [...]