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Isabel app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 8192 ratings )
Health & Fitness Medical
Developer: Isabel Healthcare
Free
Current version: 1.6, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 19 Mar 2012
App size: 2.45 Mb

Isabel ™ - helping you get to the right diagnosis quicker

Isabel is a medical app for professionals that enables you to search for possible diagnoses by multiple clinical features.

Note: Free to download BUT needs subscription**

“I was impressed….it is clearly a helpful adjunct to a busy clinician’s reasoning process.” - Robert Wachter in his 2015 book “The Digital Doctor”

“Isabel demonstrated the highest accuracy rates compared to other tools” - NHS National Institute for Health Research

“Diagnostic clinical decision support tool Isabel is a useful app for iPhone” iMedicalApps May 2012

• Search a database of more than 6,000 disease presentations
• Enter multiple clinical features in free text
• ‘Don’t miss’ diseases highlighted
• Results focused by age and gender
• Results can be refined by travel history
• Links from diagnosis to knowledge from a customisable list of mobile web resources.
• Share results with peers

INTENDED FOR USE BY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS ONLY

**THIS APP PROVIDES ACCESS TO AN EXISTING ONLINE SYSTEM. IT IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD BUT YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR A WEEKLY, MONTHLY OR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION AS AN IN-APP PURCHASE.

Isabel provides a short list of possibilities from which you may build your differential or use as a trigger to obtain further information from your patient to assist in your differential workup.

It is not designed to provide a diagnosis but rather provide you with a list of likely diagnoses to consider when you have doubt. A good example would be a patient in ED with hand edema and hypotension who you are treating for sepsis and is not responding. The Isabel system might remind you to also consider anaphylaxis among other suggestions.

To get more information and read all the validation work on Isabel please visit our website at http://www.isabelhealthcare.com

Latest reviews of Isabel app for iPhone and iPad

Interesting, but not fully realized
This app is an interesting attempt at allowing a physician to generate a more comprehensive differential than one would normally constitute on the fly. However, with no ranking of diagnoses by probability (either via test PPV/NPV, or demographics), it becomes a simple laundry list utility. Clinical information is handled in a simplistic OR Boolean regardless of context, and is thus over-inclusive. There is no linking to the popular BMJ best practice or UpToDate apps to streamline workflow, nor is there a checklist to tick off unlikely diagnoses and refine the list.
I did not buy and do not use this app.
I read about this app in a journal, they said it was excellent, but cumbersome. I went to download it and was struck by several things: one, this hasnt been updated since January 2014. Two, there are very few reviews. Three, I would have liked a short trial to be able to see how it works for me, definitely dont want to pay for that opportunity.
Fabulous - A Must-Have for Docs and NPs
The Isabel App has helped diagnose our challenging cases -- when we just dont know what diagnosis the patient with multiple symptoms has. The ability to access the Isabel tool via my iPad and iPhone has been priceless. Nurse practitioners and doctors are able to catch cases of cancer with the help of Isabel. This app is a must-have for clinicians.
NBKnight, MD
I have used the computer version of Isabel and have always found it incredibly helpful. This app makes using Isabel on my iPad that much easier to use. Great response from patients as I talk with them about their care. Great links to medical knowledge at your fingertip. Thanks!!
Isabel mobile!
The only thing better than Isabel is Isabel mobile! Im using this on the fly for diagnosis support in real time on rounds. Its great!
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