Just one example (courtesy iMedicalApps): startup Cellscope developed a smartphone camera attachment to create a personal otoscope (for looking at your eardrum) that links to a Cloud-based diagnosis engine to determine whether your child has an ear infection.
The trouble with a diagnosis based on conviction rather than measurement is that it is vulnerable to external influence.
It forces him to make a diagnosis based on how the heart sounds, an educated guess that might be considered insurance fraud.
Dr. Singh and other researchers are studying how to better define and measure errors and what strategies best prevent them, such as using electronic health records to track patient test results and helping doctors with software that suggests an alternative diagnosis based on symptoms.
The real crux to answering that is this: Do we view autism only as a clinical diagnosis based solely on behavior and outward function, or do we talk about it as a neurobiological construct and identification, with an understanding of the context of the hidden disability and the hard work that those outward behaviors require?
As a student I have certainly seen treatments given based on a certain diagnosis that provide temporary relief.
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None had made claims based on a cancer diagnosis, officials said.
Indeed, both ideas are based on the mistaken diagnosis that the central cause of our health care woes is the cost of uncompensated care that the uninsured get.
It turns out, she writes, that the whole diagnosis is based on one experiment from the 1960s in which doctors strapped 50 monkeys onto a track and slammed them into a wall at high speed.
He created a computer-based simulation of patients in need of diagnosis, called Immex.
Reportedly, the diagnosis of this case was based only on symptoms.
And the tests used to diagnosis hepatitis and HIV are based on the body's immune system response to infection, so some results could have come back negative prematurely.
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Increasingly doctors can use computer programmes based on statistical data as a tool for diagnosis but is this always the right way to treat a patient?
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We have now received an appointment letter from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for October 18, 2012 to take our children there in order to get a detailed genetic consultation, physiotherapy assessment, and to talk about Exon skipping plan based on results of biopsy for genes molecular diagnosis and its management.
Sir Mark says genome science has also led to improvements in the diagnosis and categorisation of inherited diseases and treatments for inherited forms of diabetes, based on a patient's genetic makeup.
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