Clinical Decision Support & Differential Diagnosis Using Mobile Computing Applications

Stephen Mlawsky, MD, FAAFP, CMM

Medical Director, Founder, CEO of IatroCom

Abstract:

IatroCom is a closely-held small company composed of doctors, computer engineers, and medical informatisists, founded by Dr Stephen Mlawsky in 1985. Our software development enterprises began in 1985 for the Macintosh computer. Throughout the years our applications became more sophisticated. In the 1990s IatroCom marketed, advertised and sold a product named MacON-CALL to doctors, nurses, and hospitals in 40 different countries around the world. Along the way the application was Internet enabled. With the advent of mobile devices, it was obvious that these could leverage our work. In 2010 we released the derivative app named STATworkUP. The delivery of integrated content on mobile devices just made good sense for use in clinical settings. We have built a very robust interface that is replete with great content in a nice and fairly clean user interface that is fully-relational. Our objective has been to put the power of mobile devices to work, with a very useful decision support application, to help busy providers do fast yet comprehensive problem assessments and to help improve care in the process of using it. This forum we will discuss: