SmartForms : An Ambulatory Clinical Decision Support Tool
Since 2005, I have had the privilege to work with some of the best minds behind healthcare best practices in the US. Folks like Dr. Tejal Gandhi, Dr. David Bates, Dr. Blackford Middleton, John Glaser and others have given me the opportunity to create and work on systems that think beyond traditional models of care delivery.SmartForm is a outpatient point-of-care application that is able to deliver cross-disease specific clinical decision support on a single modality to improve and measure outcomes. In English, it means a platform that displays everything you might want to know proactively as a physician to deliver cost-effective, efficient and collaborative treatment of all the conditions a patient presents, without compromising patient contact time.
Here's a recent JAMIA article authored by my colleagues talking about this application.
Over the years, I have learnt to appreciate the fact that it is difficult and somewhat impossible, at least during my generation, to replicate scientifically how physicians practice medicine. Healthcare IT's 'pixie dust' promise to save billions of dollars, avoid negligent care and improve access issues has its limitations. I am not yet convinced IT is the primary answer to the healthcare issues we face as a country. But whatever we can and have done so far, seem to result in a positive dialogue at the doctors office.
This confidence goes a long way and gives all of us hope that one day, we might just be able to perfect the art of medicine. Until then, I will still be in awe of doctors doing God's work. Link
posted by Janak Joshi @ 5/14/2009 11:00:00 AM
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