Upon reading the story in MobiHealthNews this week about CrowdMed, the startup that relies on crowdsourcing to suggest possible diagnoses to patients with rare or mysterious conditions, I had two thoughts: clinical decision support and Dr. Gregory House.
Dr. House, the fictional diagnostic genius from the dearly departed Fox show, "House M.D.," crowdsourced medical decision-making to his team of...
In building its first-ever native iPhone app, diagnostic decision support content provider Isabel Healthcare also seized the opportunity to improve its flagship Web-based product.
"When you design something for an iPhone specifically, it forces you to simplify things," CEO and co-founder Jason Maude explains. Most notably, the app has to support input on a touchscreen rather than with a mouse and...