Software for medical diagnostics

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Permalink Reply by Bobby Moeng on March 27, 2009 at 2:29am

Hi Dr Alex,
That would be a very great tool to have. The advancement of such ideas or innovations is still largely governed by the appraisal of traditional practices, where a doctor now holds all the information in their head and they apply it. This is now becoming a problem because no one enters their knowledge into any type of systems,imagine if such a doctor is to resign!

In my opinion.developing countries may still be a bit far from such advanced decision-support systems. We are still struggling with the basic practices such as the transition from paper-based to electronic systems, or even interoperating sub-systems within the same hospital! As a researcher very much interested in these last points, i still see a little bit of a long way to such decision-support tools. Maybe one or two practitioners use them already, but it needs to spread and that takes time.

Regards

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Permalink Reply by Steven B. Seo on March 27, 2009 at 10:52am

Hi there.

Even though a doctor usually now holds all the info in their head, there are a lot of paper works that are easily be able to be understood by non or semi-professionals or cooperation between non-professionals and professionals, such as evidence-based best practice guidelines.

I'm currently doing MSc in health informatics at the University of Otago, New Zealand and the project is to validate a web-based family history assessment tool for developing colorectal cancer (CRC). The tool has been developed totally based upon the New Zealand evidence-based guideline and it should be tested and examined by gastroenterologists and the researchers for public use.

Based on the guideline developed professionally by health professionals, therefore, computerised risk assessment tool (and/or decision support tool) development should be done in developing countries too!

Cheers,
Steven

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Permalink Reply by Monterico Adrian on June 2, 2009 at 3:11pm

make the expert information system to help the doctors

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