Eliminating misdiagnosis and mismangement of cases emerging from human cognitive errors has been one of the toughest challenges in the modern era of clinical medicine. It has been estimated that, in the United states of America, 210000 - 440000 patients suffer deaths from human errors annually. The search for effective solutions to curb such errors had been largely unsuccessful until the emergence of clincial decision support solutions.
These are software solutions that work in tune with the physician's needs supporting him in all the aspects of clinical work up, diagnosis and management of clinical cases. 'PhysicianCognition' is a telluride based US company which has come up recently in this direction with a very powerful platform in Physician's support. Their algorithm-based technology, over two years in the making by a large team of developers and doctors, is unique in: mimicking…
