The American College of Physicians announced Monday the release of its ACP Smart Medicine, a web-based clinical decision support tool.
The tool,developed specifically for internal medicine physicians, containing 500 modules that provide guidance and information on a broad range of diseases and conditions.
"ACP Smart Medicine offers physicians high-quality, easy-to-access clinical information that is rigorously peer-reviewed and continually assessed for currency and accuracy,'" said Steven Weinberger, MD, ACP's executive vice president and CEO, in a news release. "It is a versatile tool that runs the gamut from providing evidence-based guidance to facilitating CME credit, and is the only clinical decision support tool developed by a physician medical society."
Integrated with content from Annals of Internal Medicine, ACP JournalWise, and ACP clinical practice guidelines with a display that automatically adjusts to desktops, smartphones, and tablets, the clinical recommendations in ACP Smart Medicine are evidence-based and rated based on the quality of the underlying evidence, according to ACP.
Information is continually updated through triggered updates with new, relevant content and guidelines. Additionally, ACP High Value Care recommendations identify care activities that offer little benefit to patients.
ACP Smart Medicine also offers access to submit for CME credit. Physicians can select modules from the list of content areas they have reviewed, answer a question, and submit for CME credit.
Other features include:
- Concise, bulleted evidence-based recommendations organized into readily accessible point-of-care categories: prevention, screening, diagnosis, therapy, consultation, patient education, and follow up
- Semantically tagged content delivers search results quickly and reliably
- Differential diagnosis tables assist in securing the correct diagnosis
- Relevant drug information presented in easy-to-understand comparative drug tables
- Triggered updates whenever there is new, relevant information or guidelines
- Clinical content categorized by disease, screening and prevention, complementary/alternative, ethical and legal, procedures, and quality measures
- Content hierarchy allows users to expose just the information desired -- from bulleted recommendations at the point-of-care to the content depth of a clinical library
