Showing posts with label Health care provider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health care provider. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Decision Support Systems Technology

It’s been said that there’s a technological device for just about everything these days, and that statement holds true in the medical field, perhaps especially so. There is even technology nowadays that acts as a decision support system for healthcare professionals. One of the most acclaimed of these technologies is offered by DeductorMD.com, for example.

This system and others like it is designed to help practitioners during and/or after they provide care. The application helps them, first of all, to determine the level of medical decision making. All they have to do is enter data as requested by the app to receive a level recommendation.  

If the clinician is happy with the recommendation and agrees with it, he or she can then use it to aid in the billing process. Even if the practitioner ultimately does not agree with the recommendation provided by the app, he or she can use it as a jumping off point to start making important choices.


These technologies are mobile and can be accessed via Smartphones or tablets for convenient, easy, on-the-go use. Most professionals who try the app and others like it love it and agree that these technologies are making their jobs a whole lot easier.

If you are a healthcare clinician, are you using todays new healthcare app, DeductorMD?

Monday, August 4, 2014

New Guidelines for Kidney Stones

Localisation of pain caused by kidney stones
Localisation of pain caused by kidney stones (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The American Urological Association has recently released a new set of guidelines for the medical evaluation and management of kidney stones. While the new guidelines are full and detailed and should be thoroughly read by all practicing urologists, there are some general pieces of information to be aware of.


To begin with, when evaluating a patient for kidney stones, or kidney stone risk, healthcare professionals are encouraged to look at a wide range of factors, including:

l  Medical history
l  Dietary history
l  Serum chemistry
l  Urinalysis results

Clinicians are also advised to perform a test to determine the patient’s serum intact parathyroid hormone level in most cases. To read the guidelines in full, you can access a PDF document here.


As is always the case, understanding and complying with new guidelines can be difficult, but doing so is necessary when patients’ wellbeing is at risk.If you are a healthcare clinician, are you using todays new healthcare app for Medical Decision Making, DeductorMD?