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title: Isabel Healthcare Blog | Symptom Checker (3)
description: Symptom Checker | Read the Isabel blog, with regular updates on our products and discussions about diseases, symptoms, and the healthcare industry as a whole. (3)
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# Blog

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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..

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..

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”

March 22, 2013

### [Use a symptom checker to help decide whether CT scan is necessary](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-tests-necessary)

 USA Today ran a very interesting article yesterday about the benefits and risks of CT scans.

March 21, 2013

### [Undercover investigation highlights role for symptom checker](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/undercover-investigation-symptom-checker)

 The Which consumer magazine in the UK has just published the results of an undercover investigation of 30 GP practices in the UK.

January 15, 2013

### [Symptom checker-Pivotal tool for patient engagement](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-pivotal-tool-patient-engagement)

 As the patient engagement juggernaut gathers pace, the National eHealth Collaborative has recently weighed in with a Patient Engagement Framework

December 31, 2012

### [Symptom Information: Vomiting blood / Hematemesis](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-information-vomiting-blood-hematemesis)

 Symptom: Vomiting blood (Other names: bloody vomit, hematemesis, haematemesis).

December 19, 2012

### [Symptom Checkers- empowering patients and saving lives](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checkers-patient-empowerment)

December 18, 2012

### [Symptom Information: Insomnia](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-insomnia-sleep-disorder)

 Symptom: Insomnia: Other names: sleeplessness, hyposomnia, insomniac, wakefulness, sleep difficulty, dyssomnia, difficulty in sleeping, sleep..

December 17, 2012

### [Symptom Information: Painful Periods / Dysmenorrhea](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-painful-periods-dysmenorrhea)

 Symptom: Painful periods (Other names: dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhoea)

December 6, 2012

### [Symptom Information: Sore Throat](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-sore-throat)

 Symptom: Sore throat (Other names: Pharyngitis, inflammation of the pharynx, raw throat, pharyngeal inflammation, throat pain).

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