The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has announced a second clinical decision-support tool for personal digital assistants (PDAs) that is designed to help clinicians deliver evidence-based care when they are with a patient.
AHRQ's new interactive tool, the Preventive Services Selector, is designed to help clinicians quickly and easily search for preventive services based on patients' age and gender.
"This new tool puts the latest information about prevention into the hands of doctors, who can put it to use immediately by recommending the appropriate preventive services for each individual patient," said Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. "It's one of the many ways that we're working to tap the power of modern technology to improve the quality of care for all Americans."
The interactive preventive services tool is based on the latest recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The tool will be automatically updated with new Task Force recommendations each time the PDA is synchronized. The Task Force, sponsored by AHRQ, is the leading independent panel of experts in prevention and primary care. The Task Force conducts rigorous, impartial assessments of all of the scientific evidence for a broad range of preventive services, and its recommendations are considered the gold standard for clinical prevention.
On the downside, the download is a Windows-only .exe file (Boo, hiss!) Mac and Linux users are out of luck. Welcome to the naughty list, AHRQ! :-(
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