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# Blog

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October 23, 2014

### [5 Year Forward Report - NHS England Key points on Diagnosis ](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/5-year-forward-report-nhs-england-key-points-on-diagnosis)

 NHS England today 23rd October 2014 has published its 5 Year Forward Report which shows the NHS is at a cross road and needs to change and improve as..

February 24, 2014

### [Stuff You Should Know About Symptom Checkers](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-know-how)

 There is increasing coverage and discussion in the press about the empowered consumer and all the tools that are now available for people to use to..

November 19, 2013

### [“The Biggest Mistake Doctors Make” is diagnostic](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/bid/190522/The-Biggest-Mistake-Doctors-Make-is-diagnostic)

 The Wall Street Journal ran a special report on healthcare this week and included two great articles that both referred to the Isabel diagnosis..

November 8, 2013

### [Why we should be guiding patients from the start](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/primary-care-flow)

 A study entitled ‘The Ecology of Medical Care Revisited’ from the NEJM of June 2001 graphically shows how important it is to try and guide and..

October 7, 2013

### [Patients’ Diagnostic Accuracy is Better than Physicians!](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/patients-diagnostic-accuracy-physicians)

 Perhaps a controversial headline but a study recently appeared in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) ‘Physicians' diagnostic..

August 28, 2013

### [How to avoid Diagnostic Errors in the ED - Robert Hitchcock, M.D.](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/diagnostic-errors-in-the-ed-robert-hitchcock)

 It is with great pleasure that we introduce our guest post from Robert Hitchcock, M.D., FACEP, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Vice President,..

July 22, 2013

### [1 Minute Read: Normal Labor and Delivery](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/normal-labor-and-delivery)

 With the Duchess of Cambridge being admitted to the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London there is worldwide interest as to when the..

June 19, 2013

### [Documenting Differential Diagnosis - Avoid a Medical Malpractice Case](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/differential-diagnosis-malpractice)

 We are often asked by clinicians whether they would be better or worse off in a malpractice case if there was a record in the medical notes of their..

June 10, 2013

### [Isabel Could Have Improved the Differential Diagnosis in These Cases](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/isabel-healthcare-differential-diagnosis)

 “Old GP” is an actual GP based in North America who is close to retirement. He has a keen interest in strange presentations of diagnoses and a wealth..

April 17, 2013

### [Differential Diagnosis – The Crucial Trigger for Thinking Better](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/differential-diagnosis-trigger)

 The Isabel project was inspired after my own daughter’s near fatal misdiagnosis in 1999. Last week I experienced my own misdiagnosis. Although far..

April 8, 2013

### [Spotlight on Lawrence Weed, MD - Problem-Orientated Medical Record](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/lawrence-weed-problem-orientated-medical-record)

 Over 45 years ago, in 1968 Dr Lawrence Weed published an article on Medical Records that Guide and Teach which described the problem-orientated..

March 27, 2013

### [Symptom checker featured in Daily Mail article](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-daily-mail)

 Yesterday the Daily Mail ran an article entitled “How to avoid misdiagnosis: The online ‘doctor’ even GPs swear by”

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