Isabel helps docs come up with diagnosis 
[ 17 Feb, 2006 0100hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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MUMBAI:
It's the e-tool to cut down on medical errors. A web-based system has been
developed in the cybertech corridors of Bangalore with an erstwhile Chembur boy
as its chief
architect.
"Isabel, the
web-based diagnostic decision support, has information on more than 10,000
diseases that a doctor is otherwise supposed to cram into his head," said Dr
Joseph Britto, who studied in JJ Hospital, Byculla before moving to a London
hospital as a paediatric
intensivist.
It was during his
stint in St Mary's Hospital, London that he came across Isabel, a three-year-old
girl, whose condition took weeks to diagnose as toxic shock syndrome and
necrotising fasciitis (a flesh-eating bug).
Isabel's problem began with a
severe case of chicken-pox. But as she "crashed" and landed in an unconscious
state in the hospital's ICU, doctors struggled to diagnose her
condition.
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