Internet-based Integrated Clinical Knowledge Management Applications

• Prodigy -- a computer-based decision support tool for GPs, has been developed to support clinical decision-making and provide patients with clear and authoritative healthcare advice.  (Free registration ONLY works with IE Browser)
  
  
• InferMed provides patient-specific advice, guiding the user through data collection, clinical actions and decision making. InferMed's system offers suggestions as to what pain syndrome is manifest, what the cause of pain may be, which analgesics and associated drugs should be prescribed to control the pain and which investigations should be undertaken. Currently the system limits itself to supporting decisions on pain control to cancer alone, but this will be expanded in the future to include pain control in much more general terms (for example - arthritis, chronic pains etc.) 
  
  
• Enigma Publishing Ltd creates high quality information solutions for clinical decision support. It uses online technologies to provide products and services which enhance patient care and improve clinical outcomes. To tackle the problem, clinical practitioners need delivery of the right knowledge, right place, right time to support their decision-making. "Clinical practice is drowning in information but is starved of knowledge"  See Predict as sample application...
  
  

dfs 11/8/02