VisualDxHealth MyDiseaseFinder (Online Dx Tool)
I’ve been rethinking my previous post on “symptom-based search”, and thinking that I’ve been sloppy with my language. Some of these tools include a search component (sometimes searching proprietary content, sometimes searching the Web, sometimes searching select Web sites), but I think categorizing them as “search” tools was a mistake. From now on, I’ll refer to these as online Dx tools.
Today’s addition to the list is the VisualDxHealth My Disease Finder
Select the patient’s age and gender:
Graphically select the part of the body:
…and click Go:
Photographs fitting the criteria are then displaid:
This appears to be most useful in identifying dermatological conditions.
Also interesting from VisualDxHealth, embeddable Widgets for iGoogle or for any Web page:
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June 15th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Dear David, thanks for the tip on visualdx.
I am removed from general medicine and this kind of info looks like a peripheral brain I could make good use of. J.Glassman
June 28th, 2007 at 1:06 am
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