Isabel Healthcare Releases Version 4 (v4) of its Diagnosis Decision Support System

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Isabel Healthcare announced today the release of v4 of Isabel, its industry leading diagnosis decision support system.

“As the evolving healthcare landscape is increasingly focused on driving high quality, cost effective care, more attention is on diagnosis as the initial and most critical decision. Efficient diagnosis decisions lead to cost effective care and better referral and treatment processes -- enhancing productivity and improving outcomes”

Isabel Healthcare has invested over 10 years and thousands of man-hours developing and refining the Isabel system. As a result of this experience and an extensive reengineering of the system, Isabel v4 provides significant improvements in speed, quality and specificity. In addition, Isabel v4 has streamlined usability and enhanced accessibility features to support physicians within their normal workflow.

“As the evolving healthcare landscape is increasingly focused on driving high quality, cost effective care, more attention is on diagnosis as the initial and most critical decision. Efficient diagnosis decisions lead to cost effective care and better referral and treatment processes -- enhancing productivity and improving outcomes,” said Don Bauman CEO of Isabel Healthcare. “The Isabel v4 release improves the effectiveness and specificity of the tool to provide enhanced diagnostic support and streamline diagnosis decision making.”

Extensive testing of Isabel v4 has shown improvement in quality and specificity of over 20% and response times improved by 25%. The increase in speed allows Isabel v4 to handle current and new features in the tool with ease. New features of Isabel v4 extend access to the iPhone®, iPad™ and Android and include a more robust suite of integration capabilities into existing EMR systems.

“We are proud to release Isabel v4 with its improvements in specificity and speed, as well as its ease of use, and mobile access that allows us to put state-of-the-art diagnostic support in the hands of the physicians at the bedside,” said Isabel Healthcare Chief Medical Officer, Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, MD. “Isabel’s long history and commitment in diagnosis decision support gives hospital clients the confidence that they have chosen the right tool to support improved patient care and drive effective change within their organizations.”

About Isabel Healthcare

Isabel Healthcare Inc. was founded in 2000 by Jason Maude and is named after Maude’s daughter who almost died after a potentially fatal illness was not recognized. For over 10 years, Isabel Healthcare has provided the Isabel diagnosis decision support system to hospitals, physician practices and individual physicians and gained peer reviewed validation and unmatched experience. Today, Isabel is the only diagnosis decision support system fully integrated with EMR and is used by thousands of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and students world-wide, providing diagnostic support and education by broadening their differential diagnostic considerations. Connect with us at info@isabelhealthcare.com, 734-332-0612 or www.isabelhealthcare.com or www.twitter.com/isabelhealth to learn more.