Dr. Bill Kerr, CEO and cofounder of Avalon Healthcare Solutions, works in what his company calls "diagnostic intelligence" – using real-time diagnostic data, advanced analytics and clear clinical ...

Diagnosis refers to the clinical detection of a disease through a series of examinations. Prognosis, on the other hand, predicts disease course and therapeutic outcomes. Diagnosis is the process of ...

In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

Figure 1 depicts the ways in which implicit bias (including stereotypes) that leads to false assumptions about an individual patient, combined with inattention to systemic and structural factors ...

The diagnostic manual known as "the Bible of psychiatry" is about to get a major overhaul. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) puts out the tome known in the field as the DSM-5. That stands for ...