DynaMed, a clinical reference that seeks to offer timely updates and a strong evidence-based approach, has announced an agreement with Isabel Healthcare, which produces the highly respected differential diagnosis tool Isabel. The integration and the new reselling agreement seamlessly extends evidence-based medicine into diagnosis decision-making.
Extending evidence-based medicine into diagnosis will give clinicians key information necessary to help differentiate between the diagnoses suggested by Isabel and to decide on the next steps. Mutual customers can link from Isabel to access the evidence-based information in DynaMed, and it is now even easier for customers to acquire and integrate the two resources. The recently expanded partnership between DynaMed and Isabel allows healthcare organisations to easily purchase Isabel directly from EBSCO Publishing, the parent company of DynaMed.
The strength of these combined resources along with DynaMed's and Isabel's ability to integrate into most Electronic Health Record systems, make it a convenient and indispensible tool for answering most clinical questions during practice.
Isabel is projected as the industry-leading diagnosis decision support system designed to help broaden the differential and provide testing and treatment information at the point of need. For a given set of signs and symptoms, Isabel presents the clinician with a list of likely diagnoses to consider, and each diagnosis is linked to knowledge to help with further investigation, potential testing and treatment. The Isabel system has been extensively validated and is currently being used by leading healthcare systems to improve efficiency in decision making.
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.
Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.
