"Mr. Maude, a former equity analyst who lives in the U.K., developed a program which providers pay to use, and named it for his daughter,
now 17, who had chickenpox at the age of 3. She developed a
life-threatening infection, necrotizing fasciitis, that is a common
complication but was missed at the time. In a study co-authored by
Dr.
Graber in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in 2007, Isabel
suggested the correct diagnosis in 48 of 50 complex cases, or 96%. (
Dr.
Graber has no financial or other ties to Isabel.)
Last November, Isabel launched a
free online symptom-checker
for consumers that can take a pattern of symptoms that patients enter
in everyday language and instantly compute the most likely diagnoses
from its database of 6,000 diseases, while pushing the more far-out
possibilities down the list."
http://symptomchecker.isabelhealthcare.com/home/default
Source: WSJ, 23 July 2013: "A Better Online Diagnosis Before the Doctor Visit".
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