Mayo Develops CareSelect Tool to Guide Best Lab Practices for Clinicians

We are now entering an era when sophisticated decision support tools will become commonplace in healthcare based on machine learning algorithms. Certainly, many such tools will be developed in relationship to the laboratory database where numerical results have a close relationship to diagnoses. Mayo Clinic has developed such a tool in conjunction with a company called the National Decision Support (see:Mayo Clinic, National Decision Support Company unveil CareSelect Lab ™ to provide real-time medical guidance when ordering laboratory tests). Below is an excerpt from the article describing it:Mayo Clinic has teamed withNational Decision Support Company (NDSC) to develop CareSelect Lab ™ — a decision-support tool that aggregates clinical knowledge around a comprehensive menu of conditions and translates that knowledge into best-practice recommendations....Direct interaction with the test guidelines in a health care provider ’s normal EHR workflow, receiving feedback as to the most appropriate test(s) to order.Benchmarking and analytics tools that enable organizations to compare health care provider ordering patterns, identify gaps in care and manage overall test utilization..... “Mayo Clinic and NDSC are developing better ways to improve health care for providers and their patients,” says Curt Hanson, M.D., chief medical officer of Mayo Medical Laboratories.“We have all this knowledge at our fingertips — IT capabilities, clinical and laboratory expe...
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