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title: Isabel Healthcare Blog | Diagnostic Decision Support
description: Diagnostic Decision Support | Read the Isabel blog, with regular updates on our products and discussions about diseases, symptoms, and the healthcare industry as a whole.
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August 15, 2019

### [Differential Diagnosis Aplastic Anemia - 1 Minute Read](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/aplastic-anemia-differential-diagnosis)

 Aplastic anemia is a rare life-threatening disorder with hypocellular bone marrow, where the bone marrow cannot make enough new blood cells. This..

November 25, 2015

### [Types of Fever Differential Diagnosis - Isabel Healthcare](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/types-of-fever-differential-diagnosis)

 Fever (also known as pyrexia, high temperature or high fever) is a normal body response to a variety of conditions, the most common being infection,..

August 19, 2015

### [Rare Diseases and Misdiagnosis - An Isabel Infographic](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/rare-diseases-and-misdiagnosis)

 There are between 6,000 and 8,000 known rare diseases - defined as a disease affecting less than 5 in 10,000 people - and every week more are being..

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..

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 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..

February 28, 2013

### [Differential diagnosis needs documenting in primary care shows paper](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/differential-diagnosis-primary-care)

 A landmark article published yesterday in “JAMA Internal Medicine” entitled “Types and Origins of Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Settings” once..

September 7, 2012

### [Article review: Diagnostic errors in the ICU.](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/diagnostic-errors-in-the-icu)

 The idea for the Isabel diagnosis support tool first came to us while sitting in the ICU. A decade ago, my family and I were spending long hours in..

May 3, 2012

### [What's your Medical Diagnosis? Newborn, vomiting, septic shock](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/medical-diagnosis-newborn-vomiting-septic-shock)

 The Isabel diagnosis tool touts an extensive database of conditions for differential diagnosis support, and we often will test its accuracy with real..

March 28, 2012

### [Pancytopenia Differential Diagnosis - Isabel Healthcare](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/pancytopenia-differential-diagnosis)

 Pancytopenia refers to the reduction or abnormally low level of all blood cells (erythrocytes (red blood cells), leukocytes (white blood cells) and..

February 20, 2012

### [Pediatric Study Assesses Medical Diagnosis Tools in Med Schools](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/medical-diagnosis-tools-med-schools)

 An independent study on diagnosis decision support tools in medical education recently conducted by the Children’s National Medical Center and The..

January 13, 2012

### [HIT Leadership Cheat Sheet: Diagnosis Decision Support DDS](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/hit-leadership-diagnosis-decision-support)

 Excerpt from John Gomez, CEO of JGo Labs "Leadership Cheat Sheet for HIT Executives" from HISTalk 1/11/12

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