New Technology Advances Doctors’ Ability to Accurately Diagnose Patients

ROCHESTER, N.Y., [March 13, 2016] — Accurate diagnosis at the point of care: that’s what patients expect and should receive. In line with National Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 13-19), VisualDx is announcing a new technology to advance diagnostic accuracy in the exam room.

According to a 2015 landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, nearly every person in the U.S. will experience a diagnostic error in their lifetime. According to the report, 74,000 deaths occur as a result of 18 million diagnostic errors annually.

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“The number of diagnostic errors in the U.S. medical system is staggering, but there is an avenue to reduce this growing problem through point of care, visually-centric technology,” said Dr. Art Papier, Chief Executive Officer of VisualDx. “VisualDx is the first diagnostic software system to gain widespread physician acceptance, it has now expanded from assisting skin, eye and oral related diagnosis, to visualization of patterns of internal disease across medicine”.

Using visualization to guide a clinician to an accurate diagnosis at the point of care, the technology is the first to help clinicians recognize variation of disease patterns. The company is focused on reducing diagnostic error by providing visualization interfaces that more rapidly assist doctors in seeing unusual disease patterns. The company created the Sympticon™, a novel method to turn internal symptomatology into a visual comparison tool, speeding diagnosis and patient understanding. Clinicians can more rapidly identify symptom patterns that might ordinarily be missed. Patients are more confident in the diagnosis when their health practitioner utilizes VisualDx.