Evidence Based Medicine

Physicians in Australia set to launch academic journal focused on mHealth

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A group of physicians in Australia look to launch the first journal dedicated to mobile health.

Evidence based decision making taken to a new level by the BMJ

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By: Tom Lewis As the cost of healthcare continues to grow at unsustainable rates, there has been an increasing emphasis on ensuring that the care being delivered by individual clinicians is evidence-based. From optimal medical management of heart failure patients to appropriate cancer screening regimens, its important that clinicians know that the recommendations they make to their patients is supported by available data. The Best Practice app is a point of care tool from the BMJ Evidence Centre designed to [Read more]

Zynx Health Condenses Vast Amounts of Evidence Based Guidelines into Computerized Order Sets

This is part of iMedicalApps coverage of the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Zynx Health was founded in 1994 by three physicians at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Their original mission, unchanged from that time, says Carina Edwards, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, is to improve patient care and decrease costs. The challenge for physicians, then as now, is utilizing evidence based medicine in day-to-day patient care. While physicians can always search the primary literature or [Read more]

Evidence Central App – Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines Instantly Available in Mobile Form [App Review]

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Review of Evidence Central, an app that gives the user access to a number of respected medical references for up-to-date recommendations.