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VisualDx a little nausea but life saving medical tool

VisualDx: a little nausea, but life-saving medical tool

Lei feng's network has introduced a Figure 1 photo sharing application, which is called the doctor Instagram, the main users are medical professionals. Doctors can share photographs of their work, provide a reference for others. Figure 1 there are lots of social composition, today will introduce the VisualDx focus more on disease diagnosis.

But prior to introducing this product, we can start with a true story.

Dr Alejandro Diaz served on the national health centre, Nile city, California where he doesn't always see some rare diseases in people. The local clinic was just in order to service the city a large number of foreign immigrants, Diaz Dr clinic diagnosis and treatment resources are very limited.

Time to go back to a few years ago, when a cough accompanied by diarrhea and body rash girl appears, Diaz she just got a common viral illnesses. With antiviral drug but as a child his mother left after only a few days, her mother took her back. This time, the little girl the rash become worse, and the lips appear swollen. Unable to diagnose what it is caused by swelling of the lips, Diaz decided to turn to his internship at the Medical Center in the Harbour to a network of diagnostic and therapeutic tools: VisualDx.

He entered the boy's age and symptoms in the system, and then rank the most likely diagnosis results, and returns a sequence of photos of a variety of symptoms. He passed in front of the little girl's lips and pictures on the PC, and then found a rare vascular disease called Kawasaki disease.

If it had not been VisualDx,Diaz may not have been so comprehensive, maybe he just plain inflammatory, but the little girl this disease may be causing her to die from heart disease. Fortunately, the little girl does not ultimately died, after a series of laboratory tests they diagnosed the disease and received symptomatic therapy. Many years later, Diaz was still full of confidence to VisualDx, just like in an exam room at any time by doctors, to help him diagnose diseases.

VisualDx: a little nausea, but life-saving medical tool

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Since 2001, after the publication by Dr Art Papier, VisualDx already in use by over 1500 hospitals and clinics, and more than 80 medical schools for teaching throughout the United States. Today, due to start using mobile technology in the medical building, and young doctors want to use it, this app a huge increase in traffic. Threatened by diseases such as Ebola at the same time, hospitals and insurance companies want to anticipate and identify prevalent diseases and VisualDx can provide enormous help.

Turning to the original intention of the product development, Papier shared his own experience of life. When at school, usually only the exam, ask students to each of the symptoms of the disease, and then after several years of practice, asking them to remember all the things, it's like letting a pilot in mind all airlines across the United States. But when he was working in a remote small town clinic, he discovered a problem: the primary physician even to identify common diseases will arise, which is why in the United States, and 1 out of every 10 cases are wrong, leading to 40000, 80000 a year a patient's death.

Since then, Papier felt the need for generalist physicians have some knowledge of fine, so he developed this tool called VisualDx. Now, this product has a homepage and a mobile terminal, which contains associated with diagnosis and treatment of more than 1000 kinds of more than more than 100,000 after expert examination of photos. Today, doctors pay $ 29.99 a month can get permission to use it. Enter a patient's symptoms and other potentially identifying information, such as the age of the patient, recently went after what, VisualDx will show a series of pictures, so that doctors can click on any picture to view more information.

VisualDx: a little nausea, but life-saving medical tool

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VisualDx need doctors too much. Diagnosis and treatment of a large number of the same as cheating, allow them to easily diagnose the disease. Other diagnostic tools on the market only shows a long list of words, describe the various diseases, the VisualDx is starting from photos, to accelerate the process of diagnosis and treatment, which is especially beneficial for emergency. One physician said, other tools will require doctors to provide first symptoms and provide all possible diagnoses, he hopes can find diagnostic and therapeutic results. Many times patients would only say that they had a skin rash, need doctors yourself to find out why. VisualDx has changed this pattern, through their own algorithms to find corresponding to the symptoms and diagnostic results. Michael Kors iPad Case

Of course, it also has its own limitations, not every kind of symptom can be displayed in a visual way. For these problems, VisualDx will draw a diagram to be emphasized. Papier said, the biggest challenge was for doctors to use this app but is not in a hurry to make a diagnosis.

A recent example is a patient named Thomas Duncan, from Libya came back and his body of fever and other symptoms, even though he told travel history to the doctor, he and surgeon diagnosed with no serious illness and let him go home to recuperate. If doctors can use VisualDx, you'll find from Libya to come back and have similar symptoms diagnosis and treatment results most likely Ebola.

Papier believes that young doctors are more accustomed to using mobile technology in diagnosis and treatment, they are more likely to use VisualDx. Only the year is 2014, doctors view 60 million photos with VisualDx, Papier thinks this is a big step forward. With the development of society, it will encounter more and more new and unknown disease, and the doctor's brain does not remember the next unknown symptoms of the disease.

via wired

VisualDx: a little nausea, but life-saving medical tool

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