SimulConsult's medical decision support software allows doctors and other medical professionals to combine clinical and laboratory findings and get a "simultaneous consult" about diagnosis. The software suggests diagnoses and also identifies other findings that will be most useful in reaching a diagnosis. The software uses a statistical pattern-matching approach that takes into account the age of onset and offset of the findings in each disease. This information comes from a large peer-reviewed community of experts, assembled in a manner similar to information in journals. Healthcare professionals can use the software to help think through a particular case and can also contribute material for others to use such as descriptions of findings in diseases. For example, a doctor who has just reviewed an area for a published article can add the details of the clinical description material to the database, referenced to the article. The result: contributors help people make diagnoses and find their published articles at the same time. Benefits of using the software include: Reach the differential faster and more effectively, while saving time and increasing diagnostic quality, with greater confidence in recognizing atypical presentations of a common diseases and uncommon diseases, ensuring they have been fully factored in to making the diagnosis. Automatically document medical necessity for expensive tests. Get help with pay-for-performance, by focusing on the most relevant clinical findings and tests, with automatic documentation of your workup.
