Case Study
Differential Diagnosis Engine: The Right Dose for Improved Clinical Decisions
The Client Business Challenge Differential Diagnosis Engine: The Right Dose for Improved Clinical Decisions A niche medical technology provider The client wanted us to design and develop a symptom checker web application that could recursively and algorithmically generate differential diagnosis, and improve clinical decision-making. The requirements were: • A natural language processing system that could convert the verbal description of symptoms into a systematically coded list of symptoms termed as chief complaints. • The client also needed a differential diagnosis engine that took type, acuity of the symptom and demographics of the chief complaint of the patient into account and generated a list of differential diagnosis. Beyond possible The solution improved context-