DDx Generators in the News: Isabel Healthcare Press Interest
Few medical systems have received so much media coverage as Isabel. Over the years we have been featured several times in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Times to name just a few high impact publications. Explore our past media coverage.
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Nov 2018, HCA News
Finding mHealth Apps that Doctors Can Trust
It may be hard to imagine a time when prescribing a mobile health (mHealth) app for patients is as common as writing a script for an antibiotic or statin, but if the quality...
Sep 2015, US News
Going Digital
WHEN PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush issued an executive order in April 2004 to establish the office of the national coordinator for health IT, he had a clear vision in mind: To create...
Jan 2015, Proto
Doctors in the Machine
IN THE SPRING OF 1999, a financial analyst named Jason Maude took his three-year-old daughter Isabel to the hospital. She had chicken pox, and was listless and feverish; doctors...
Oct 2014, Mail Online
Parents of girl ravaged by flesh-eating bug decide NOT to sue hospital that failed to treat her, but instead invent online symptom checker to prevent other doctors missing deadly infection
It is among the most common of childhood illnesses, causing a tell-tale red, itchy rash and tiny blisters. But when Isabel Maude caught chicken pox at the age of three, her parents...
Sep 2014, Mail Online
What do YOUR symptoms mean? New online 'calculator' tells you which conditions you're most likely to be suffering from
We've all had those niggling symptoms such as tiredness or pain that won't go away. And many of them could be a sign of any number of conditions. For example, while a dodgy stomach...
Nov 2013, ACP Internist
Patients increasingly checking ‘Dr. Google’
As a family physician who has used an electronic medical record for 12 years, Gary Bevill, MD, sees himself as open to new technological advances. But the advent of Internet tools...
Jul 2013, The Wall Street Journal
A Better Online Diagnosis Before the Doctor Visit
When Rick Ramirez started experiencing sharp pains in his back and legs last year, a doctor was unable to find the cause. But as the pain continued, the 27yearold Utah brokeragefirm staffer...
Apr 2013, Journal for Patient Compliance
Symptom Checker – The Pivotal Tool for Patient Engagement
Quality healthcare outcomes depend upon patients’ adherence to recommended treatment regimens. Patient non-adherence can be a pervasive threat to health...
Mar 2013, Mail Online
How to avoid misdiagnosis: The online 'doctor' even GPs swear by
Businesswoman Tracy Posner was never a regular visitor to the GP. In fact, she only ever went to the surgery for routine appointments such as her children’s...
Feb 2013, Verywell.com
How to Diagnose Yourself Using the Internet
A majority of us turn to the Internet for health-related information. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2014, 87 percent of American adults had access to the Internet, and...
Dec 2012, New York Times
For Second Opinion, Consult a Computer?
The man on stage had his audience of 600 mesmerized. Over the course of 45 minutes, the tension grew. Finally, the moment of truth arrived, and the room was silent...
Oct 2012, Mail Online
A third of patients say their GPs are so rushed they are worried they will be misdiagnosed
For most patients the GP is their first port of call when they fall ill. But a survey has revealed one in three think their local doctors are now so busy that they could...
Jun 2010, Chicago Hospital News
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Equips Students with Computerized Diagnosis System
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) is the first medical school in Illinois and one of the first in the nation to provide its students...
Jan 2009, Hudson Valley Business Journal
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital has ‘Isabel’ diagnostic technology
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center is the first children’s hospital in New York State to provide pediatric specialists with an additional resource...
Sep 2008, South Florida Business Journal
Miami Children’s pioneers use of new diagnostic tool in Florida
Hospitals are places where even the smallest margin for error is unacceptable, so Miami Children’s Hospital has added a program to help its doctors up with a virtual medical library...
Sep 2007, The Sun
Isabel will tell what ails you
Ever been to the doctor and wondered if you were given the wrong diagnosis? It's not just your imagination. One in six people has been misdiagnosed, according to health...
Aug 2007, Highland Community News
Isabel to the rescue
When Isabel Maude was 3 years old, she was taken to the hospital, suffering from a serious fever. The doctors who...
Jun 2007, For The Record
Detecting Diagnostic Errors: Have You ‘Isabeled’ It?
What types of medical mistakes occur more frequently—medication or diagnostic errors? Given all the media attention, the obvious answer is medication...
Nov 2006, The Wall Street Journal
Preventing the Tragedy of Misdiagnosis
When she was three years old, Isabel Maude had a worsening fever that was dismissed as complications from chicken pox by the family...
Feb 2006, The New York Times
Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong
ON a weekend day a few years ago, the parents of a 4-year-old boy from rural Georgia brought him to a children's hospital here in north...
Feb 2005, Forbes
Remote Controlled Health Care
In 1999, Jason Maude's 3-year-old daughter, Isabel, was rushed to the hospital, desperately ill with complications from chicken pox. Her doctors...
Jun 2002, Sky News
Parent's invention A Child Life Saver
A new online diagnosis tool has been created to help doctors and nurses accurately diagnose illnesses in children. The launch of the Isabel...
Jun 2002, BBC News
Website to reduce medical errors
The parents of a English girl who nearly died after doctors failed to diagnose the flesh eating bug have helped to develop technology...
Jun 2002, The Guardian
Parents' invest in aid to NHS
When Jason and Charlotte Maude's three-year-old daughter Isabel nearly died after doctors failed to diagnose complications from chicken pox, they decided not to sue the NHS...
Jun 2002, The Daily Telegraph
Parents who did something positive
Today, Times 2 reports on the case of Isabel Maude who, at the age of three, all but died after a misdiagnosis. Despite suffering the high fever and bluish discoloration...
Apr 2001, The Times
Innovators not victims
Today, Times 2 reports on the case of Isabel Maude who, at the age of three, all but died after a misdiagnosis. Despite suffering the high fever and bluish...
Apr 2001, The Times
Internet Saviour
I met Jason and Charlotte Maude in the summer of 1999, in the most unthinkable of circumstances. Their three-year-old daughter, Isabel, lay close to death in St Mary’s...
