iPhone & iPad app for medical problem assessment & best practices
IatroCom sincerely hopes that you find STATworkUP an enjoyable and useful application. It represents many long years of work by dedicated professionals in the medical and computing industries. We take pride in our work and greatly desire that you find a pleasurable experience using our products.
Time spent establishing a correct diagnosis is essential. It serves to guide everyone who sees a patient about a problem. Every decision that is made, and everything that is subsequently done, depends on the diagnosis.
The definitive diagnosis is a matter of sound clinical judgment. No matter how sophisticated computer diagnostic technology becomes, people still treat people. Questions must still be asked in the right manner, with keen senses to detect very subtle clues and interpret findings. Microchips have yet to replicate human insight and intuition.
Still, people do have limitations. Organic memory is less reliable than hard disk storage. Also, computers process information and calculate results much faster and more accurately than people can. They can appropriately constrain a differential list of significant conditions that need further attention. Humans tend to overlook unfamiliar disease presentations. Oftentimes, in hurried situations, they unconsciously favor common diagnoses for uncommon ones. A good computer program does not skip less obvious diagnoses. It doesn't forget to check unusual presentations. It can even be helpful when more than one diagnosis coexists.
The correct solution is one that considers all possible diagnoses and profiles relevant findings and studies. It should also widen the clinician' s perspective, shifting focus from the chief complaint to other contributory, but perhaps less obvious problems.
STATworkUP has been designed to help acquire a comprehenvive social, occupational, travel and drug history, so essential during the initial evaluation. It facilitates a quick yet complete investigation. Such data can aid with the correct assessement. Robust interactions map out the approach to evaluation, rapidly weighting the contribution of observed findings, at the same time it assists to derive a limited set of significant diagnostic considerations, and appropriate corroborative studies based on current guidelines. The application links to many other useful sites to get additional details concerning treatment modalities, procedures, medical necessity policies from payors and much more.
Comorbid conditions or immunocompromised states can have a substantial bearing on the likelihood of an illness. Symptoms and signs may often be subtle or infrequent. Most problems are not typical "textbook cases" and, early in the course of an illness, only a few suggestive manifestations may be present. Additionally, "red herrings" (findings that exist but due to another unrelated condition) can be present. Attempting to provide too much causal reasoning about conditions can be computationally costly. A workable approach must deal with just part of the picture, yet reveal useful results quickly.
STATworkUP is a problem-oriented application that helps the provider do all this. It eases their busy schedule and time constraints, by supplying fast targeted information for quality assessments. It delineates good workup considerations for most symptoms and signs of illness and produces sets of appropriate diagnostic likelihoods for consideration and focus.
It automates diagnostic processes and contains a large data set. It is an excellent utilization review and teaching tool as well.
IatroCom is pleased to provide support for STATworkUP. The application has an embedded set of tutorial help files about how to use all of its features. There is also an online help tutorial plus the user manual is posted at the Help site.
Please let us know how you like using this app on your iOS devices. You may contact us with any questions by email or at IatroBlog.
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STATworkUP is available for purchase at the iTunes App Store for $39.99 US
