Guest guest Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Seems like would be a wonderful thing for medicine. Before I was diagnosed, somewhere on the web there was a tree-like diagnosis thing, and I put in my symptoms and came up with strictures and even achalasia showed up. Cancer, strictures or achalasia were the choices. This was about 2001. Yet my gi prescribed Prevacid, and had me come back for several months for free samples. Achalasia was a tiny % in choices. When I finally had a barium swallow and the radiologist said achalasia from behind some wall, I recognized it immediately. Haven't ever found that flow chart thing again. After my daughter was born in 1997 some book had a flow chart, similar to that one. I had back pain about two weeks after she was born. It pointed to a kidney infection, and when I went to the doctor, it was exactly correct. We need or a flow chart. > > All this talk about not acting like doctors has reminded me about > something I wanted to share about IBM's . I think will > prove to be a great development for people with rare diseases. I once > heard that learning medicine today is like trying to drink from a fire > hose. There is just to much information to know it all, even in just one > specialty. Many have gotten upset because their doctors were slow to > consider achalasia, or didn't seem to know it even existed. Now imagine > playing a medical version of Jeopardy. Playing with all the data > of the National Library of Medicine and PubMed, the CDC, FDA, > pharmaceutical and medical equipment data, medical encyclopedias and > medical dictionaries and all the other medical databases, including all > that is known about rare diseases, in its data base. > > Host: Your choice : > > : Dysphagia Patients for 200. > > Host: This test was done after a barium swallow produced negative results. > > : What is esophagogastroduodenoscopy? > Esophagogastroduodenoscopy 85% > Esophageal Manometry 10% > No test, but send the nut job to a shrink 5% > > Host: Correct. Go again . > > : Dysphagia Patients for 600. > > Host: A patient with this disorder had a negative > esophagogastroduodenoscopy but showed aperistalsis and a dysfunction of > the lower esophageal sphincter. > > : Who is an achalasia patient. > Achalasia 80% > DES 6% > CREST 4% > > Host: Correct. Your choice. > > Now get rid of the Jeopardy board and the style of clues and questions > and you have a medical assistant that has access to all that medical > information your doctor forgot or never knew. Your doctor could provide > a list of symptoms and test results and could provide list of > possible conditions and tests to perform, along with the probabilities > that the conditions or tests are correct, and the evidence for and > against them. could also make a good research assistant locating > relevant papers and data by other researcher. > > If you think this sounds like science fiction see: > > The IBM Library on YouTube > and HealthCare > http://www.youtube.com/ibm/#p/u/8/uWHG7DMLurE > > and Healthcare Analytics > http://masteringdatamanagement.com/index.php/2011/02/24/watson-and-healthcare-an\ alytics/ > > Enjoy. > > notan > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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