VisualDx reduces errors by augmenting a clinician’s thinking. We help establish a logical method of clinical reasoning to avert common pitfalls. This leads to evidence-based decision making.
VisualDx Reduces Unnecessary Hospital Admissions and Antibiotic Use
In a study published in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, the University of Maryland Medical System reported 38% fewer admissions when Emergency Department clinicians used VisualDx within the electronic health record at the time of diagnosis. Using VisualDx also significantly reduced antibiotic use due to proper identification of cellulitis mimics.
Read the StudyProven to Assist Clinicians with Skin Conditions
Use of VisualDx early in the decision-making workflow can help reduce errors for more efficient healthcare management.
For more than 20 years, VisualDx has been committed to providing a comprehensive resource for medical images across all skin types.
Researchers found VisualDx to have the most diverse images; 28.5% of all images in VisualDx are of dark skin.
Cellulitis Errors: A Medical Crisis
Physicians using VisualDx were over 4 times more likely to suggest the correct condition for patients admitted to the hospital for serious infections. Without VisualDx, admitting physicians made errors 28% of the time. These errors can lead to overprescribing of antibiotics and increased patient risk of hospital-acquired infections.
Visual Clinical Decision Support
VisualDx assists medical decision-making in areas where physicians and other providers have expressed a consistent need—those areas requiring pattern-recognition expertise. We help physicians accurately recognize and treat conditions by leveraging the innate human ability to pattern match. Simply search by patient factors to see a visual differential diagnosis. VisualDx combines the best medical images in the world—reviewed and confirmed by leading physician experts—with a unique and powerful search engine to give you patient-specific information in seconds. Clinicians are armed with the best knowledge to make the best decisions for their patients. This is key because serious infectious, immunologic, metabolic, nutritional, psychiatric, and genetic diseases often present visually.
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