VisualDx Launches Open Access Digital Technology to Combat Global Travel-Related Disease Misdiagnosis - Press Release - Digital Journal

"ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(Business Wire)--VisualDx, the world’s leading clinical decision support system for physicians and front line health care professionals, announced today the launch of an Emerging Global Disease digital tool to help front line medical responders easily and accurately identify travel related infectious diseases. Available to the medical community and general public free of charge, this offering comes from heightened awareness of the spread and misdiagnosis of global travel-related diseases including Ebola. Diseases that may be prevalent in a country thousands of miles away are often unfamiliar to primary care physicians, as well as urgent care and emergency department personnel outside that region. With the VisualDx Emerging Global Disease tool – available at – http://www.visualdx.com/public-health/emerging-global-disease, providers and patients can quickly input the name of a country where travel recently occurred, select from symptoms, and be presented with diagnoses for consideration in a matter of seconds ..."