"CDS can change medical practice", notes a
recent edition of HealthcareIT News (August,
2008; www.HealthcareITNews.com). EMR's decision to embed
diagnostic imaging Clinical Decision Support tools directly
into their application places them on the leading edge of
EMR companies delivering significant clinical and
administrative benefits to physicians in their offices.
Medicalis enables embedding rich diagnostic
imaging Clinical Decision Support into the physician’s
workflow. Continuous advances in diagnostic imaging
procedures such as CT, MR and PET, have made it increasingly
difficult for physicians to stay current with changing best
practices. This has led to an environment where 7-10% of
diagnostic imaging procedures ordered are inappropriate,
where a different procedure or no testing at all would be
clinically preferable.
Medicalis’ diagnostic imaging Clinical
Decision Support tools are designed to plug into EMRs and
CPOEs using advanced Web-Services to make simple the
delivery of complex diagnostic imaging Clinical Decision
Support in the context of a physician ordering a test. The
physician’s experience is similar to prescription-drug
databases currently embedded into the ordering workflow of
EMRs. Physicians using their EMR will be able to place
diagnostic imaging orders in the same way that they always
have, and only when there are alternative tests to consider,
they will be seamlessly presented with these options in
their EMR. This process delivers the evidence-based
practices from leading diagnostic imaging and imaging
sources while the physician is considering tests for their
patient. The seamless experience eliminates the interruption
required to reference text books or online websites.
